Order
Cathartiformes
Family
Cathartidae
Genus
Cathartes
 
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SPECIES

Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture Cathartes burrovianus

Jack C. Eitniear
Version: 1.0 — Published September 19, 2014

References

Introduction

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Binford, L. C. 1989. A distributional survey of the birds of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Ornithological Monographs number 43.

BirdLife International. 2014. Species factsheet: Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture Cathartes burrovianus. Downloaded from BirdLife International on 7 September 2014.

Dresser, H. E. 1865. Notes on the birds of southern Texas. Ibis 7: 312-330.

Dunning, J. B., Jr. 2008. CRC handbook of avian body masses. Second edition. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.

Eitniear, J. C. 1985. Notes on the relative abundance and distribution of the Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture in Mexico and Belize, Central America. Birds of Prey Bulletin 2: 17-20.

Eitniear, J. C. 2015. Estimating age classes in the Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture Cathartes burrovianus. Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society 48:46-48

Eitniear, J.C., and S. M. McGehee. 2017. Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture Mandibular Ecomorphy and Feeding Interactions at an Established Feeding Site in Belize. Texas Journal of Science 69:37-46.

Ferguson-Lees, J. and D.A. Christie. 2001. Raptors of the world. Christopher Helm, London.

Global Raptor Information Network. 2014. Species account: Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture Cathartes burrovianus. Downloaded from Global Raptor Information Network on 2 September 2014.

Graber, R. R. and J. W. Graber. 1954. Yellow-headed vulture in Tamaulipas, Mexico. Condor 56: 165-166.

Haverschmidt, F. 1968. Birds of Surinam. Oliver and Boyd, London.

Hellmayr, C. E., and B. Conover. 1949. Catalogue of birds of the Americas. Part I, number 4. Field Museum of Natural History Zoological Series volume 13, part 1, number 4.

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Howell, S. N. G., and S. Webb 1995. A guide to the birds of Mexico and northern Central America. Oxford University Press, New York, New York.

Kirk, D. A., and M. J. Mossman. 1998. Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura). In A. Poole (editor), The Birds of North America Online. Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York.

Koester, F. 1982. Observations on migratory Turkey Vultures and Lesser
Yellow-headed Vultures in northern Colombia
. Auk 99: 372-375.

McGehee, S. M. and J. C. Eitniear. 1987. A road census of Lesser Yellow headed Vultures in southeastern Mexico. Vulture News 18: 31-35.

Paulini H., R. Torres, S. Villalba, M. Michelutti y M. Lépez, 2015. Presencia del jote cabeza amarilla (Cathartes burrovianus) en el Chaco Seco argentino. Nótulas Faunísticas (segunda serie), 187.

Pyle, P. 2008. Identification guide to North American birds. Part II. Slate Creek Press, Point Reyes Station, California.

Pyle, P., and S. N. G. Howell. 1993. An aggregation of Peregrine Falcons on the Mexican winter grounds. Euphonia 2: 92-94.

Rich, P. V. 1983. The fossil history of vultures: a world perspective. Pages 325 in S.F. Wilbur and J.A. Jackson (editors), Vulture biology and management. University of California Press, Berkeley, California.

Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, D. F. Lane, J. P. O’Neill, and T. A. Parker III. 2010. Birds of Peru. Revised and updated edition. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

Stresemann, E., and D. Amadon. 1979. Order Falconiformes. Pages 271-425 in E. Mayr and G.W. Cottrell (editors), Check-list of birds of the world. Volume 1, second edition. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Wetmore, A. 1950. The identity of the American vulture described as Cathartes burrovianus by Cassin. Journal of the Washington Academy of Science 40: 415-417.

Wetmore. A. 1964. A revision of the American vultures of the genus Cathartes. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 146 (6): 1-18.

Wetmore, A. 1965. The birds of the Republic of Panama. Part 1. Tinamidae (tinamous) to Rynchopidae (skimmers). Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections volume 150, part 1.

Recommended Citation

Eitniear, J. C. (2014). Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture (Cathartes burrovianus), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.lyhvul1.01