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Vultures
Vultures are scavenging birds, feeding mostly on the carcasses of dead animals. Ask questions about these birds here.
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Do vultures ever flap their wings?
Yes they do. But only when they are beginning their flight while they in the air they only glide.
How does the poet make use of rhyme in The Vultures by David Diop?
Remembrance, regret and revolt are the rythmic messages induced by diop
Does a vulture have babies or lay eggs?
Vultures are birds and lay eggs. Baby vultures hatch from eggs.
They were probably turkey vultures. In summer, they are found as far north as southern Canada.
What is the highest flying vulture?
The altitude record is held by a Rüppell's griffon Gyps rueppelli, a vulture with a 10-foot wingspan. On November 29, 1975 one was sucked into a jet engine 37,900 feet above the Ivory Coast in West Africa. The plane was damaged but landed safely. What the bird was doing up so high I have no idea, since this species is not migratory. Rüppell's Vulture is a medium-sized vulture that occurs throughout the Sahel region of central Africa.
What is the difference between vultures and ptarmigans?
Unlike ptarmigan, the feathers of vultures do not change colours with the season. Ptarmigan are classified as "game birds" since they prefer to roost and stay close to the ground, and even when they fly they never stray very far above the ground, only flying maybe 6 to 8 feet above the ground, and landing a short distance away from where they were startled from. They will often stay in hiding in one spot when a predator runs by, then suddenly spring up in a whoosh of wings when their threat is nearly on top of them. Ptarmigan are not carrion eaters like vultures are; they prefer to eat berries and plants instead.
Vultures are much larger, much darker and have a naked head with a curved beak designed to tear flesh (ptarmigan have shorter, pointed beaks similar to that of a chicken's beak). They are not ground-dwellers like ptarmigan are; they are often found soaring high above the ground, taking up drafts of warm air and using them to soar without moving their wings. They have a keen sense of smell, and can smell rotting carcasses or dead animals from miles away. Vultures are carnivorous birds and will readily scavenge a dead animal's carcass.
Recent evidence shows that New World vultures, like the California Condor, Andean condor, king vulture, turkey vulture, and black vultures do indeed show genetic markers more similar to storks than Old World Vulture species.
Are there buzzards or vultures in Haiti?
Buzzards and vultures are different types of birds.
Buzzards are actually birds of prey, with several species as part of the genus Buteo, along with several species of hawks. The term "buzzard", however, is sometimes applied to other birds of prey in other taxonomic categories. It is also used to refer to vultures in North America, and sometimes in reference to "pest" hawks such as Cooper's Hawk.
Vultures are scavenging birds, and feed primarily on already-dead animals. They are primarily divided into Old World Vultures (family Accipitridae) and New World Vultures (family Cathartidae).
There do not appear to be any buzzard species in Haiti. They are more commonly found in Europe and Asia.
The turkey vulture (Cathartes aura) is found in Haiti, and is the only vulture species there.
What is the meaning of the poem butterfly by Chinua Achebe?
Original: This poem is about the struggling nature of good and evil.
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Its more than just that. its about good and evil living side by side inside of one person. Why does the world see one person as either good or bad? Such as the refernce to the German Commandant who gassed people by day in the concentration camps and then stopped for chocolate for his child on the way home. I think this poem shows that good and bad resides inside every person, and that they can surprise you. But it really depends on how you interpret this poem yourself.
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Furthermore, it contains a underlying question that Achebe poses to the reader. Should we rejoice at this presence of good and love in the darkest of places, or despair at that it is that very love that allows for the perpetuity of evil?
They are a bird that lives in hot dry places. They eat dead or decaying animals they are scavengers
What is the authors purpose of Chinua Achebe's Marriage is a private affair?
Don't resist change because it's futile to do so.
Why do vultures never attack people?
It might eat a dead carcass of a human if it found one.
For the most part, vultures are scavengers, meaning they eat animals that are already dead. When they do catch something live to eat, it generally isn't overly large. Attacking a human would both be unwise and dangerous to the bird.
No, they run really fast if usain bolt and a vulture raced a vulture would win 20mph
Buzzards and vultures are example of?
Buzzards and vultures may be categorized as scavengers as they are organisms which feed on the dead animals they find, and rely on them for the obtaining of nutrients.
What does a buzzard use for a nest?
Buzzards nest in trees, in woods, on farmland, moors or scrub. The nest is usually made from twigs and lined with moss and bracken. Frequently, the same nest is used year after year.
The male and female take turns incubating the eggs. The eggs are about 55 mm by 45 mm, smooth and non-glossy, white with brownish or purplish blotches. Both adults feed the young birds, though the newly-hatched are usually fed by the female with the male hunting and bringing the food to the nest.
The andean condor will put their nest high up in the cliffs.
What type of vultures live in Georgia?
I know turkey vultures for certain because they land in our front yard all the time and we see them hovering around while waiting on the school bus. Also we have black vultures here too.
Where does Egyptian vulture live?
the Egyptian vulture lives in the mexico desert underneath the cactus's. it burrows into the ground.
What god has a vulture as their symbol?
Çatal Höyük, or the forked mound, is a site where evidence of vulture worship occurred. However the name of this diety is not recorded and lost to time.
