| 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) |
| Go to turkey vulture |
| Go to black vulture |