Turkey Vulture
Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)
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The naked red heads of the adult turkey vultures resemble those of turkeys, hence the name.
Turkey vulture Cathartes aura
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Length: 25 inches Wingspan: 72 inches
Sexes similar
Very large, broad-winged, soaring bird
Long and rounded tail
Longish, hooked bill
Rather short, thick legs ...
Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)
The Turkey Vulture is found from southern Canada to Tierra del Fuego. It is found in a wide variety of habitats from desert to tropical rain forest.
Turkey Vulture
Species Info Closest Map
Recent encounters for the Turkey Vulture.
Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)
Length: about 25".
Photographed on May 27, 2005, along the refuge's Wildlife Loop (map) near Snow Goose Pool.
Turkey Vulture (Cathartes Aura)
True or false? Engineers have been known to use a bird's sense of smell to detect leaks in natural gas
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Turkey Vulture
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TURKEY VULTURE FACTS
Description
The Turkey Vulture is a large black-brown bird with a bare red head. The flight feathers are gray on the underside. It can soar for long periods, holding its long wings held in a shallow v-shape.
Turkey Vulture
Bird. Turkey vultures are related to the stork, not to birds of prey. They can travel up to 322 kilometers (200 miles) in a day.
Turkey Vulture
Cathartes aura
The Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) is a widespread species over most of North, Central, and South America. It is often a common and conspicuous species and one which is familiar to most people.
Turkey Vultures are scavengers, subsisting entirely on carrion. With the coming of the automobile, they are most often seen feeding on roadkills.
Turkey Vulture
(Cathartes aura)
Status: Migrant.
Last recorded on site in 2011
Breeding Status:-
1992 to 1996: Possible but not likely
1997 to 2001: Possible but not likely
2002 to 2006: Possible but not likely ...
Turkey Vulture
Cathartes aura (Linnaeus)
Status Rare visitant. Although there are no published nineteenth-century records, Piers' notes refer to museum specimens (not extant) taken from Clarks Harbour, Shelburne County, ...
Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
Described by: Linnaeus (1758)
Alternate common name(s): None known by website authors
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...
Turkey Vulture
Cathartes aura falklandica
Local Name: Turkey Buzzard
Breeding Range: Falkland Islands
Length: 70cm
Falklands Population: ~3,000 breeding pairs
World Population: as above
(subspecies restricted to Falklands) ...
Turkey vultures, like other carrion birds, are protected from disease associated with decaying animals by a very sophisticated immune system.
NESTING:
The Turkey Vulture usually nests on the ground under cover, and sometimes in caves. They lay two eggs.
CONSERVATION STATUS:
Considered common in its range, it has no special conservation status.
Turkey Vulture
Class: Aves
Status: IUCN red List: Least concern
Wild turkey ...
Turkey Vulture - Supreme Static Soarer
"Soaring" is flying with minimal flapping of the wings. "Static soaring" refers to soaring flight occurring in rising air, such as on thermals. And no birds are better at it than the vultures.
Turkey Vulture Facts
Turkey vultures are one of the amazing birds that are found in America and are known for some really interesting habits and characteristics. Find out some important turkey vulture facts with this article.
Turkey Vultures migrate thousands of miles north each spring from their tropical winter homes, and each fall return south to their old nesting sites. Turkey Vultures travel in unorganized flocks of several hundred birds.
Turkey vultures occupy a diverse range of habitats. They are found in forested as well as open environments. Turkey vultures can be found anywhere they can effectively find a carrion food supply.
Turkey vultures (Cathartes aura) and black vultures (Coragyps atratus) are widespread across the Americas. Rare for birds of prey, turkey vultures actually have a keen sense of smell, while black vultures rely on their eyesight to find food.
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Turkey Vulture - Cathartes aura
Swainson's Hawk - Buteo swainsoni
Bald Eagle - Haliaeetus leucocephalus
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Turkey vulture (Cathartes aura)
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... turkey vultures have adaptations that help them eat carrion.
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The Turkey Vulture occurs throughout most of the continental United States during the breeding season, with birds staying throughout the year in the southern portion of the country.
The American turkey vulture helps human engineers detect cracked or broken underground fuel pipes. The leaking fuel smells like vulture food (they eat carrion), and the clustered birds show repair people where the lines need fixing.
The condors, the turkey vulture and the black vulture are amongst the members of this family. All the species live in the Americas.
Scientific name: Cathartidae
Rank: Family ...
California condor, turkey vulture
CLASS: Aves (birds)
ORDER: Ciconiiformes (storks and relatives) ...
Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura: San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary, Irvine, CA, 01 Jan
Osprey Pandion haliaetus: San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary, Irvine, CA, 01 Jan ...
Turkey Vulture - Cathartes aura
Greater Yellow-Headed Vulture - Cathartes melambrotus
Roadside Hawk - Buteo magnirostris
Slate-Colored Hawk - Leucopternis schistacea
Laughing Falcon - Herpetotheres cachinnans
Speckled Chachalaca - Ortalis guttata ...
Not endowed with the acute sense of smell of the Turkey Vulture, it is believed that the condor finds most of its food by observing other scavengers, such as the Turkey Vulture, Common Raven, and Golden Eagle.
Two species of vulture occur in Florida, the turkey vulture (Cathartes aura) and the black vulture (Coragyps atratus). Turkey vultures have reddish heads while the heads of black vultures are black.
From a distance you might confuse a soaring Red-tail with a Turkey Vulture (also very common across North America in summer), but Turkey Vultures have longer, more rectangular wings, which the birds hold above horizontal, forming an easily visible V.
And the adult turkey vulture or turkey buzzard has a wings spread of 6 ft. the head is red. The black vulture is smaller and is black . The tropical king vulture has a orange crimson, and purple colour, with a neck ruff of gray down.
In the adult turkey vulture, or turkey buzzard, Cathartes aura (wingspread 6 ft/1.9 m), the head is red; in the smaller black vulture it is black; and in the tropical king vulture (with cream and black plumage) it is orange, crimson, and purple, ...
Black Vultures have white primaries (Turkey Vultures have white secondaries and primaries) and a black head. The tail is shorter and more triangle shaped. When soaring they hold their wings in less of a dihedral than Turkey Vultures.
The King vulture feeds on carrion and have been observed watching and then following other kinds of vultures (turkey vultures and lesser and greater yellow-headed vultures) to a carcass.
Unlike most other birds, except the turkey vulture, they have an excellent sense of smell. Just as scent guides them to their own nest burrows at night during the breeding season, so it helps them to find food out in the open ocean.
They have no feathers on their heads. Adult Turkey Vultures' red heads resemble turkey wattles, hence the name. Unlike most birds, they have a keen sense of smell which they use to locate food.
Length is 27" (about the size of a Turkey Vulture or slightly smaller than a Golden Eagle), the iris of the eyes are yellow, the facial disk has concentric rings, and the bill is yellow to olive green.
A vulture, particularly the American Black Vulture and Turkey Vulture, or as a general term for vultures and condors.
The feces of the turkey vulture contains strong acids that kill many of the bacteria commonly associated with bird feces.
Prey ranges in size from small passerines, shrews (Soricidae), and voles (Arvicolinae) to large waterfowl, owls, turkey vultures, and snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) [33,34,59].
poisoning due to fragmented lead bullets in large game waste is a particularly big problem for condors due to their extremely strong digestive juices; this lead waste is not as much of a problem for other avian scavengers such as the Turkey Vulture ...
Vultures are divided into two groups: Old World vultures (family Accipitridae, 15 species) and New World (American) vultures (the voiceless, hissing family Cathartidae, 6 species, including the California Condor and the Turkey Vulture).
The small Egyptian vulture, which rarely has a chance when other larger vultures are tearing into a carcass, has learned to use stones to break open ostrich eggs. The Turkey vulture, often called a buzzard, has an acute sense of smell, ...
 See also: Turkey, Vulture, Eagle, Black vulture, Stork
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