Cathartes melambrotus Wetmore, 1964

Vitorino, Breno Dias, Vilas Boas da Frota, Angélica, Ikeda Castrillon, Solange Kimie & Nunes, Josué Ribeiro da Silva, 2018, Birds of Estação Ecológica da Serra das Araras, state of Mato Grosso, Brazil: additions and review, Check List 14 (5), pp. 893-922 : 903

Cathartes melambrotus Wetmore, 1964

We recorded this species soaring on thermal currents over a semideciduous seasonal forest. Identified by black primaries contrasting with grayish secondaries and by the typical silhouette.