Those large carrion-eating birds without which the world would be a much less desirable place to be. According to Wikipedia, “some earlier authorities suggested that the New World vultures were more closely related to storks. More recent authorities maintained their overall position in the order Falconiformes along with the Old World vultures or place them in their own order, Cathartiformes.” Me, I don’t know. I just know what they look like, man, and a little bit of what they do.
