Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture FAMILY - Cathartidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Cathartes burrovianus REFERENCES - 21 and 1 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Resident, species present all year. 22 Resident, species present all year. 3 Apparently secure in Belize 20 Uncommon: occur at low density in proper habitat. 20 District Reference Belize 4 Cayo 4 Corozal 7 Orange Walk 4 Toledo 16 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Shipstern Nature Reserve Sighting Dry season 7 Shipstern Nature Reserve Sighting 15 Rio Bravo Conservation Area Sighting Permanent 10 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 17 Gallon Jug Dry season 4 Gallon Jug 9 Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary Permanent 12 Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary 13 Community Baboon Sanctuary 14 Lamanai Archaeological Reserve Sighting Dry season 6 Mussel Creek Drainage (Proposed) Sighting Dry season 5 Private land, see comments Collected as voucher 19 Private land, see comments Sighting 15 Private land, see comments 8 Private land, see comments 11 Private land, see comments 12 Monkey River Special Development Area Sighting Wet season 16 Hydrologic Association Reference New River Lagoon 17 Belize River 14 Mussel Creek 5 New River 6 Elevation Reference 1-200 m 15 1-200 m 17 1-200 m 18 1-200 m 19 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 30' to 88 45' 13 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 30' to 88 45' 6 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 12 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 4 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 11 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 14 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 17 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 12 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 18 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 4 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 5 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 00' to 88 15' 8 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 18 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 19 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 5 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 10' to 88 30' 12 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 00' to 88 10' 8 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 18 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 4 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 18 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 4 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15' 15 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15' 7 16 15' to 16 30'; 88 15' to 88 30' 16 18 00' to 18 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 15 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 10 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 15 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 19 Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 18 Subtropical moist 18 Subtropical moist 17 Subtropical moist 15 Subtropical moist 14 General Distribution Comments 22* Uncommon northern semideciduous moist forest. Common coastal/low-lands savannas, inc. marshy areas. Common mangroves lowlands & coastal beaches. Rare cayes inc. Ambergris. 12* Midwinters Lagoon, Big Falls, Shipstern Lagoon, Hattieville-Burrell Boom 11* Big Falls Rice Farm 8* Belize 3* Summer resident, uncommon northern hardwood forests and coastal savannas. References 1 A.O.U. 1983. Checklist of North American Birds. 6th Ed. 2 A.O.U. 1985, 1987, 1989. 35th-37th Supplements. 3 Wood, D.S.,R. C. Leberman, and D. Weyer. 1986. Checklist of Birds of Belize. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 12. 4 Miller, B. W., 1994. Belize Christmas Bird Counts, Twenty Year Summary. in prep. 5 Miller, B., C. Miller. 1987. Conservation of a Critical Marsh and Lowland habitat, Mussel Creek drainage system, Belize, C.A. Report to NYZS/Wildlife Conservation Society. 6 Noble, B., B. Stewart, J. Dillon. 1994. Lamanai Bird List, Mid-October 1993 - 16 March 1994. 7 Meerman, J. 1993. Checklist of the Birds of the Shipstern Nature Reserve, Occasional Papers of the Belize Natural History Society. 2(10). pp. 71-81. 8 Russell, S. M. 1964. A Distributional Study of the Birds of British Honduras. Ornithological Monographs No. 1, A.O.U. 9 Miller, B., C. Miller. 1994. A working checklist of the birds of Gallon Jug. Unpublished list. 10 Anon. 1994 (August). Working Checklist, Birds of Rio Bravo Conservation Management Area. Unpublished list. 11 Jenkins, P. G. 1982. The Royal Air Force Ornithological Society Belize Expedition, 1981. 80.pp Unpublished report. 12 Weyer, D., Eitniear, J. 1982. Notes on the status of the Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture in Belize, Central America. Unpublished report to the Vulture Study Group.pp.10. 13 Tilson, R.L., B.W. Miller. 1983. Interspecific Dominance and Feeding Patterns of Lesser Yellow-headed Vultures in Belize. Unpublished manuscript. 14 James, D., J. Bider. 1993. Bird List: Community Baboon Sanctuary, 1989- 1993 (derived from banding & census data, field notes). Unpublished data. 15 Robbins, Chandler. 1996. U.S.F.& Wildlife Service Wintering Bird Surveys for Belize. Unpublished data provided by C. Robbins. 16 Meerman, J.C. ed. 1995. Monkey River Special Development Area Stann Creek District, Belize. Belize Tropical Forest Studies Publication #5. Appendix: Bird List. Unpublished Technical report for B.E.S.T. 17 Vallely, A. C., A. A. Whitman. 1996. The birds of Hill Bank, northern Belize. Unpublished report for Programme for Belize. 18 Miller, B. W. 1997. Belize Christmas Bird Count Summary 1970-1995. Data from American Birds Vol. 28-50 including 1973-1996. 19 Panza, R. 1997. Carnegie Museum, Division of Birds, Holdings of Belize specimens through Jun. 1, 1997. 20 Miller, B.W., C.M. Miller. 1997. Avian Risk Assessment for Belize, Species at Risk and of Conservation Concern. Report to Programme for Belize/TNC Wings of America Program. 21 A.O.U. 1997. Forty-first Supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American Birds. The Auk. 114 (3):542-552. 22 Garcia, J., S. Matola, M. Meadows, and C. Wright. 1994. A Checklist of the Birds of Belize. WWF-US. 35p.
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