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Answer for the clue "South American vulture ", 6 letters:
condor

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Condor is the trade name of an amusement ride sold by HUSS of Bremen, Germany. It was debuted at the 1984 New Orleans World's Fair, under the name "Cyclo Tower". The Condor has 28 steel-framed gondolas, each equipped with a painted fiberglass shell ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from American Spanish, from Quechua cuntur , the native name for the bird.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Either of two New World vultures, ''Vultur gryphus'' of the Andes or ''Gymnogyps californianus'', a nearly extinct vulture of the mountains of California. 2 A gold coin of some South American countries bearing the figure of one of these vultures. 3 ...

Usage examples of condor.

Its ear--splitting roar was what led the Aymarans to think an explosion had materialized the bronze man from a condor.

Harry, that Roscoes cannot breed in captivity and that Chandu the Magician is a cousin of the condor at Santa Barbara.

Apart from a lone Oerlikon on a sponson below the starboard side of the bridge, the next Condor pressed home its attack against a minimum of resistance.

World War II, when the Japanese fleet had had air superiority, or when the Germans had used long-range Condors to circle convoys, radioing their positions to any interested party, and not a thing the Allies back then could do about it.

Condor and the many Linyaari ships when they returned carrying the spacefarers from captivity.

There are condors in the area, and they did not appreciate our presence.

Aye, mortal birds are little more than feathered lizards, but these particular condors were more lizard than most.

Two or three more of those condors will finish usand the Black Moranth.

Moranth of the second wave, who had climbed high before intending to turn about and race north, reappeared, above the three condors, diving en masse towards the creatures.

Twisting spirals of grey lightning writhed skyward from the south roof, linking the score of condors wheeling overhead.

At the end, the demonic condors had died easilyproof enough that the Seer had either fled or had been killed.

A flock of condors was lazily winging over the city, and endless sheet lightning was booming amid the fiery orange-and-purple clouds.

You get the dictionary and read about the condors of the Andes Mountains.

Beyond him stretched towering and snow-clad peaks, and high in the air were small specks, which he knew to be condors, watching with their eager eyes for their offal food.

I supposed condors only went for things dead, but I reckon, as you say, it mistook the baby in the deer skin for a dead animal.