Gallinazo

Word GALLINAZO
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From these facts, the condor, like the gallinazo must to a certain degree be considered as a gregarious bird. ❋ Unknown (2003)

On the other hand, besides the experiments of Audubon and that one by myself, Mr. Bachman has tried in the United States many varied plans, showing that neither the turkey-buzzard (the species dissected by Professor Owen) nor the gallinazo find their food by smell. ❋ Unknown (2003)

From these facts, the condor, like the gallinazo, must to a certain degree be considered as a gregarious bird. ❋ Unknown (1909)

"Good-bye, old ship," he exclaimed, as he headed his craft toward the west -- the direction in which the gallinazo had flown and in which he judged land must lie. ❋ John Henry Goldfrap (1898)

Heaven knows what we might have become in that tiny plantation, for I was sick of life, and the mosquitos and flying ants, and the chattering parroquets, the grim gallinazo, and the quatre, or native bed -- a wooden frame and canvas; but one day at Kingston I met a man, one Cassandro Biatt, who had an obsession for adventure, and he spoke to me privately. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

From these facts, the condor, like the gallinazo, must to a certain degree be considered as ❋ Various (1891)

The moistened earth, when heated by the rays of the sun, diffuses the musky odor common in the torrid zone to animals of very different classes, to the jaguar, the small species of tiger-cat, the cabiai, the gallinazo vulture, the crocodile, the viper, and the rattlesnake. ❋ Unknown (1874)

The common gallinazo usually builds its nest on the tops of houses, churches, ruins, and high walls. ❋ Johann Jakob Von Tschudi (1853)

The black-headed gallinazo is inactive, heavy, and seldom flies far. ❋ Johann Jakob Von Tschudi (1853)

Further in the interior of the country it is frequently seen, though there it is less common than the black gallinazo (_Cathartes foetens_, Illig.). ❋ Johann Jakob Von Tschudi (1853)

It flies faster, and continues longer on the wing than the black-headed gallinazo. ❋ Johann Jakob Von Tschudi (1853)

The young crocodiles are often attacked, and have their eyes pecked out, by the small gallinazo or "zamuro" vultures just in the same way that we have seen one of a larger size become the victim of the more powerful king vultures. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

The young crocodiles are often attacked, and have their eyes pecked out, by the small gallinazo or "zamuro" vultures (_aura_ and _cathartes_), just in the same way that we have seen one of a larger size become the victim of the more powerful king vultures (_Sarcoramphus papa_). ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

It also digs up its eggs; and, together with the alligator, the heron, and the gallinazo vulture, captures large numbers of the little turtles recently hatched. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

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