Vultures have bald heads and necks to regulate their body tempreture. They must cope with the large variation in tempreture in the environment they live in. Read more here :
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A particular characteristic of many vultures is a bald head, devoid of feathers. This helps to keep the head clean when feeding. Research has shown that the bare skin may play an important role in thermoregulation.[1]
To put their head and neck easier inside the animal corpses and carcasses they eat and not get their feathers gunky and filthy.
Vulture's mainly have bald heads because if they didn't they would get blood and gore in it.
Because of bacteria that they eat from dead animals
So it can glide through the air
vultures have no hair in neck
They stick their head up their preys bottom and eat the insides of it. It's true, and that's why they have long, stretchy necks it's also why they have bald heads so they don't get their feathers messed up.
Bald Eagles have white heads and brown bodies, and do a lot of scavenging. Vultures typically have featherless heads and black or brown bodies.
Most vultures have naked or nearly naked heads, to prevent getting the feathers there fouled. Also, vultures have a highly developed olfactory senses, to locate dead animals by smell. The beak is shaped to tear soft, decaying flesh. Vulture beaks are not as powerful as raptor beaks.
Vultures eat dead things, may stick their heads right inside the gut of a dead animal. Such habits give the risk of having of having the feather soiled with bacteria producing guck. To promote better health a nake head is better as it is more easily cleaned.
no there isnt't
Vultures typically have featherless heads, and can be brown or black, depending on the species. Bald eagles are brown, and are also partly scavengers, but their heads are not bald, but covered with white feathers.
the body covering of a buzzard are feathers.
duck feathers are the best
They were probably turkey vultures. In summer, they are found as far north as southern Canada.
Vultures are messy eaters. They feed on dead animals, pushing their heads right inside the bodies to tear into the meat. If they had head feathers, they'd get dirty and sticky, and would be almost impossible to clean. That's why vultures are much better off being bald.
the boys have long feathers on their necks and the girls have short feathers on their neck
Vultures are birds; therefore, they have a body covering of feathers.