Turkey vulture
Cathartes aura

Size: 26 inches
Overall Color: dark brown
Occurrence: widespread
Diet: carrion
Nest: scrape on ground
Field Identification: naked red head, finds food by smell while soaring, trailing half of wing silvery, white undertail
Season: spring-summer

Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
Phylum: Chordata (hollow nerve cord)
Subphylum: Vertebrata (backbone)
Class: Aves (Birds)
Order: Falconiformes
Family: 21 Cathartidae (new world vultures)
Genus: Cathartes
Species: aura