| Turkey vulture | Black vulture | ||
| Adult | |||
red head  | gray very wrinkled featherless head  | | |
reddish tarsi (lower leg) | gray toes (appear white from excrement) | ||
| uniformly light gray remiges on underside of wings  | outer primaries have whitish area on each feather more visible on lower surface  | ||
| yellowish white bill see-through nares  | narrow bill yellowish brown on tip  | ||
| longer tail that extends well beyond feet in flight  | short square black tail that extends to feet in flight  | ||
| Juvenile | |||
| grayish head pinkish around nares  | smooth black head | ||
| black tip on white bill see-through nares  | blackish bill with black tip (tip turning yellow as ages)  | b |
| Go to turkey vulture |
| Go to black vulture |