Species names in all available languages
| Language | Common name |
|---|---|
| Catalan | zopilot selvàtic |
| Czech | kondor větší |
| Dutch | Grote Geelkopgier |
| English | Greater Yellow-headed Vulture |
| English (United States) | Greater Yellow-headed Vulture |
| Finnish | amazoniankondori |
| French | Grand Urubu |
| French (France) | Grand Urubu |
| German | Wald-Gelbkopfgeier |
| Japanese | オオキガシラコンドル |
| Norwegian | skogkondor |
| Polish | sępnik żółtogłowy |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | urubu-da-mata |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | Urubu-da-mata |
| Russian | Большая желтоголовая катарта |
| Serbian | Veliki žutoglavi lešinar |
| Slovak | kondor modrotemenný |
| Spanish | Aura Selvática |
| Spanish (Argentina) | Jote Cabeza Amarilla Grande |
| Spanish (Ecuador) | Gallinazo Cabeciamarillo Mayor |
| Spanish (Peru) | Gallinazo de Cabeza Amarilla Mayor |
| Spanish (Spain) | Aura selvática |
| Spanish (Venezuela) | Oripopo Cabeza Amarilla Mayor |
| Swedish | skogsgam |
| Turkish | Büyük Sarı Başlı Akbaba |
| Ukrainian | Катарта лісова |
Greater Yellow-headed Vulture Cathartes melambrotus
Version: 1.0 — Published November 3, 2017
Systematics
Geographic Variation
None described.
Subspecies
Related Species
Described as Cathartes melambrotus Wetmore 1964; type locality Kartabo, Guiana.
Johnson et al. (2016) found the New World vultures to be a monophyletic clade, based on phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequence data (from both mitochondrial and nuclear genes), with the genus Cathartes sister to Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus). Within Cathartes a sister relationship between Greater Yellow-headed Vulture and Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture (Cathartes burrovianus) was moderately well supported, with Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) sister to the two yellow-headed vultures.
Cathartidae traditionally was included in the order Accipitriformes, but now usually are recognized as a separate order, Cathartiformes, based on their very ancient divergence from Accipitriformes (Jarvis et al. 2014, Prum et al. 2015).
