turkey vulture

English

Turkey vulture.

Noun

turkey vulture (plural turkey vultures)

1. A common New World vulture, Cathartes aura.

Synonyms

• carrion crow (some areas of the Caribbean)
• John crow (some areas of the Caribbean)
• turkey buzzard (buzzard)

Translations

a common North American vulture, Cathartes aura

• Apache:

  Western Apache: ch'ishoogi

• Bulgarian: американски лешояд m (amerikanski lešojad)
• Catalan: zopilot m, urubú m
• Danish: kalkungrib c
• Finnish: kalkkunakondori (fi)
• German: Truthahngeier m
• Hebrew: קתרטס תרנגולי
• Hungarian: pulykakeselyű
• Irish: bultúr turcach m
• Italian: avvoltoio collorosso m
• Nanticoke: moh waas
• Navajo: jeeshóóʼ
• Polish: sępnik różowogłowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: urubu-de-cabeça-vermelha m
• Russian: гриф-инде́йка (ru) m (grif-indéjka)
• Seri: naapxa
• Spanish: jote (es) m, zopilote (es) m, gallinazo (es) m
• Swahili: tai mzoga
• Swedish: kalkongam (sv) c
• Turkish: hindi akbabası

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Translations to be checked

• Spanish: aura f (Mexico), aura tiñosa f (Caribbean Islands), aura zunchiche f (El Salvador), cuervo de cabeza roja m (Uruguay), cute f (Honduras), gallinazo cabecirrojo m (Panama), gallinazo de cabeza roja m (Ecuador, Peru), guala f (Colombia), jote m (Bolivia), jote de cabeza colorada m (Argentina, Chile), noneca f (Panama), oripopo m (Venezuela), zonchinche m (Costa Rica, Nicaragua), zopilote cabecirrojo (Costa Rica, Nicaragua), zopilote de cabeza roja m (Costa Rica, Nicaragua), zunchiche m (El Salvador)