The authors wish to correct errors printed in the Journal of Raptor Research 54(4):424–430 (Allen et al. 2020).
When summarizing documented reports of cannibalism, we mistakenly categorized Old World Vultures as family Cathartidae (e.g., New World Vultures), when in fact they are in family Accipitridae. This mistake led us to incorrectly refer to Bearded Vultures (Gypaetus barbatus) as Cathartidae rather than Acciptridae in the Introduction section. We also mistakenly referred to Cinereous Vultures (Aegypius monachus), Griffin Vultures (Gyps fulvus), Eurasian Griffon Vultures (Gyps fulvus), and White-backed Vultures (Gyps bengalensis) as Cathartidae rather than Acciptridae in Table 1.
This error affected our summaries as well. In the Results section, we reported that “raptors from Acciptridae were most common (n = 19, 65.5%)” family for cannibalism and “Cathartidae (n = 4, 13.8%).” However, this should read “raptors from...