Either of two New World vultures, Vultur gryphus of the Andes or Gymnogyps californianus, a nearly extinct vulture of the mountains of California, having a bare head and neck and dull black plumage containing variable amounts of white. With a wingspan of about three meters (ten feet), they are the largest birds in the Western Hemisphere.
A very large American vulture () of the high Andes having the head and neck bare and the plumage dull black with a downy white neck ruff and white patches on the wings .