[7] early naturalists placed all vultures under one single biological group. Vultures are large, social raptors that live on every continent except antarctica and australia. Across africa and southeast asia, vultures have suffered catastrophic and unprecedented population declines, mainly because of poison.
Old world vultures and new world vultures, encompassing various species.
Rather, they share resemblance because of convergent evolution. Poisoning is the biggest threat to vultures. These birds have two main classifications: Vultures are soaring scavengers vital to ecosystems, feeding on carrion, preventing disease spread, & including species like the andean condor & turkey vulture.
There are two main groups; Residing in asia, africa, and europe, old world vultures. Carl linnaeus had assigned both old world. Vultures are known as large scavenging birds found on all continents except for australia and antarctica.
The 23 species are divided into new world vultures from the americas and old world vultures.
