URBAN BIRDS OF THE PARKS, GARDENS, AND SOURROUNDING AREAS OF LOJA CITY ECUADOR. BOOK PUBLISHED IN 2009, WITH 44 COMMON SPECIES. ILLUSTRATED BY PABLO ANDRADE. WORK SUPPORTED BY JAN HINLOOPEN.
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Birds of Loja City . Black Vulture, Coragyps atratus.
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56 – 63,5 cm (22-25″).
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Distribution
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Birds Loja City . Black Vulture, Coragyps atratus.- Widespread, common, and conspicuous in lowlands (though less so where forest remains extensive), smaller numbers up into highlands (where mainly arounds towns and cities).
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Description.
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Iris dark brown; bill blackish with pale horn tip; legs blackish. All ages have bare head and neck dark gray; plumake dull black. In flight shows broad and fairly long wings, short tail; outer primaries have whitish patch at their base, conspicuous both from above and below.
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Birds of Loja City . Black Vulture, Coragyps atratus
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Habit.
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A familiar bird in many areas, and one of the few large birds in Ecuador clearly to have beneffited from humans omnipresense. Often becomes tame around towns and settlements, frequently roosting in large congregations in trees, feeding on refuse as well as Carri?n (also eats some live food), hopping and even running with considerable agility on ground. Unlike Cathartes vultures, which it dominates at food sources, has no sense of smell. In typical flight its shallow, stiff, and fast wingbeats are interspersed with short bouts of sailing, but it is also capable of soaring to great heights. Birds Loja City . Black Vulture, Coragyps atratus.
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In Loja we can find it in some areas around the city and along the Zamora river.
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Birds Loja City. Striated Heron. Butorides striata
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Information taken from the book Birds Of Ecuador of Robert Ridgely and Paul Greenfield.
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Birds of Loja City . Black Vulture, Coragyps atratus.
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