Style1½ inches thick (3.75 cm) Product Details Artist grade canvas, archival inks, wooden stretcher bars, and UVB protective coating
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Description Cathartidae is a family of birds distributed in the American continent. Popularly they can be called of 'condors', 'vultures' or 'vultures of the New World', however they are not kindred with the true vultures, and the similarities are derived of the convergent evolution due to the alimentary habits - necrfagos. The taxonmic alimentary positioning of the family is still controversial, being now contained in the order Accipitriformes or in an own order, Cathartiformes. In the traditional classification it belonged to Falconiformes, and Sibley and Ahlquist consider the group as a subfamily of Ciconiidae, order Ciconiiformes. The vultures and condors inhabit the American continent exclusively and they occupy an enormous variety of habitats, from Andes to the tropical and semitropical areas of Latin America. In some areas of Brazil it is called erroneously: 'crow'. the popular denomination of the bird 'vulture' has its origin in the Tupi language uru'wu