turkey-vulture

In America the name "buzzard" is popularly given to the turkey-buzzard or turkey-vulture (_Cathartes Aura_).

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

Self -- (Self, by-the-bye, keeps eagles and vultures as well as camels) -- has any amount of sympathy for his charges, but who _could_ make a pet of a turkey-vulture, with its nasty, raw-looking red head, or of a cinereous vulture, with its unwholesome eyes and its unclean-looking blue wattle?

The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various 1880

We passed two or three country cemeteries, where that foulest of birds, the turkey-vulture, was seen sitting on the white stuccoed walls, or hovering on his ragged wings in circles over them.

Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America William Cullen Bryant 1836

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Russ Wellen: Why Are Vultures Eating in Restaurants? 2009

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Russ Wellen: Why Are Vultures Eating in Restaurants? 2009