Vultures

The binomial name of vulture is Cathartidae.

Rhyticeros plicatus

The Wild Turkey's scientific name is Meleagris gallopavo.

"Vultures" is a poem by Chinua Achebe born in Nigeria.

It was written in Africa in 1930, and compares humans to vultures.

Vultures feed on carrion.

"carrion" is the name given to dead animals. Vultures do not kill the animals themselves, but when an animal dies or was killed by some other animal, they then eat and clean up the remains.

-They are "scavengers".

Prey

no

a lion is before a vulture on a energy pyramid

hen

I don't know anything about them but am researching them myself. Here's a link that may be helpful. http://www.pestproducts.com/turkey-vulture.htm Good luck!

first of all maybe but some say yes and some say no depends on east west north or south! some might live in the south!

that means you've got something dead and decaying on your property. enjoy.

Vultures can live up to twenty years,but most don't make it that long.A Turkey vulture was recorded to have lived to nearly thirty in a zoo in Alabama,and this is considered very unusual.The black vulture has been recorded to live up to 25 years.

I believe it was a cartoon published by the Saturday Evening Post many years ago.

I saw it for sure in a playboy magazine. 1970's?

what are some adaptations for the lapet-faced vulture

rough tongues to take the skin off animals and get to the flesh.

widley spaced feathers for energy condervation while gliding and flying.

hooked bill to cut into flesh. :)

Vultures can eat owls if they really wanted to, but vultures are scavengers, and usually eat dead things. They can eat owls, but dead owls more often than alive ones. :)

Yes, just as you could eat other bird.

scavengers

Vulture. Latin name: Vultur. Other names: Vautour, Voltoir, Voltour, Votoir. The vulture is a slow-flying bird that eats corpses ...

They dont leave dead things to sit out and rot away. GROSS :(

Yes, vultures nest in St. Croix Mississippi.

Most animal feces is dangerous if ingested by humans. Turkey buzzard feces may be a little more dangerous because bacteria dangerous to humans can live comfortably in the gut of buzzards.

Turkey vultures are very common birds, and their numbers could be in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions.

nope an example of a producer is grass

It lives 118 years