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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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Does a turkey vulture eat a deer?
Vultures are scavengers, so they don't hunt. Instead, they eat already dead animals. A deer carcass would definitely be eaten by any vultures that found it.
Generally a buzzard will not attempt to harm a human. Buzzards are scavengers and eat the carcasses of deceased animals. However, due to germs and the unpredictability of wild animals caution should always be exercised when encountering a wild buzzard.
How big would a bird's wings have to be if the bird weighed 150 pounds?
A young boy named Marlon Lowe was picked up by a bird back in 1977. It flew up a couple feet then dropped him. Witnesses say it had a wingspan of 15 feet. Birds of prey must weigh twice as much as their prey. Marlon weighed about 60 pounds so they estimate the bird to be around100 pounds.
How do bird stay in the air without flapping there wings?
Gliding: Defined as falling at less than 45 degrees from the horizontal. Lift caused by some kind of aerofoil mechanism, allowing slowly falling directed horizontal movement. Streamlined to decrease drag forces to aid aerofoil. Often some maneuverability in air. Gliding animals have a lower aspect ratio (wing length/wing breadth) than flyers. The fundamentals of bird flight are similar to those of aircraft. Lift force is produced by the action of air flow on the wing, which is an airfoil. The lift force occurs because the air has a lower pressure just above the wing and higher pressure below. When gliding, both birds and gliders obtain both a vertical and a forward force from their wings. This is possible because the lift force is generated at right angles to the air flow, which in level flight comes from slightly below the wing. The lift force therefore has a forward component. High aspect ratio wings, which usually have low wing loading and are far longer than they are wide, are used for slower flight, almost hovering (as used by kestrels, terns and nightjars) or alternatively by birds that specialize in soaring and gliding flight, particularly that used by seabirds, dynamic soaring, which use different wind speeds at different heights (wind shear) above the waves in the ocean to provide lift.
Is a turkey vulture a carnivore?
Vultures are carnivores - they thrive on the remains of prey animals killed by hunters and of the (even more numerous) animals that died of natural causes or of wounds inflicted by other animals.
After the vulture eats the dead raccoon it gets energy from it. When the vulture dies, some of the energy is converted into the organisms that eat dead matter. The energy is then circulated through the ecosystem.
YES! A bird is basically a mammal. SO IT HAS TO BE WARM-BLOODED!
What is a turkey vultures predator?
Black vultures are mostly scavengers. They are predated by large raptors up to the size of golden eagles and northern eagle-owls.
Why is the vulture becoming extinct?
There are many things that can cause a species to become threatened or endangered. Some problems, such as pollution, can affect many plants & animals at the same time. In other cases, perhaps the loss of a wooded area for new construction, a problem might threaten only one particular species in that one area.
These are the major causes:
HABITAT LOSS
A habitat is the ecosystem a species needs to live in - a swamp, rainforest, woodland, limestone bog, desert etc. HABITAT LOSS IS THE GREATEST CAUSE OF SPECIES BEING ENDANGERED. Construction of homes, buildings, roads, timber harvesting, loss of farmlands and the creation of farmlands (more likely outside of the U.S., as in the rainforest of South America) threatens many ecosystems large and small.
POLLUTION:
Pollution can take many forms. Water, air and ground pollution are all related. Toxic substances dumped in a wooded area will destroy the soil and the species that live in it (from bacteria, to insects and the birds & animals that eat them) but it will also get into the groundwater below it. that water may lead to the same source of water that comes out of your faucet!!
COMPETITION FROM OTHER SPECIES
Sometimes there are just too many animals living in an area that compete for the space, water and food that is found there. For example, in NJ, a large population of raccoons (which turned out to have a parasitic disease) threatened the last remaining population of woodrats in NJ.
DISEASE
By our definition, diseases occur naturally. We are not talking about diseases that animals get because of pesticides or pollution. It is a part of nature that animals get diseases. But sometimes humans introduce diseases and problems into a species. The most publicized example is DDT. An insecticide that was used all over the U.S., it was found in water & soil and eventually worked its way up the food chain from small water feeders to the fish who ate the plant life in the water and the animals and humans who ate the fish! When DDT was left into the water it eventually broke down and became DDE. These toxic substances (along with others like PCB's) caused eagles and peregrine falconsto produce eggs that had shells so thin that they broke just from the mother sitting on them.
PREDATION
Predators are species that hunt other species as their way of getting food. For example, a peregrine falcon will kill small rodents (like mice & voles) and even kill other birds to get food. This is natural and expected. There are no predators that cause extinctions in NJ and none that we could find in our research - unless humans had changed the predators or introduced other predator species.
Why is the Asian white backed vulture endangered?
The Asian White-backed vulture was classed as critically endangered after its population dropped dramatically on the Indian sub-continent in the late 1990s. It had already virtually disappeared from Southeast Asia by the mid 20th century.
The reason why this bird has become endangered has been found to be largely due to the use of a particular drug on livestock. The drug is Diclofenac, an anti-inflammatory which is commonly given to livestock in Asia. If vultures feed on the carcasses of animals that have been treated with Diclofenac shortly before they die, the drug causes the vultures' kidneys to shut down, resulting in death.
Yes there are vultures that are endangered, these are a couple: Andean Condor, California Condor.
Vultures eat a variety of dead animals including dead skunks, raccoon, coyote, dog, cat, and armadillo. These birds are known for their ability to make a meal out of almost anything that is dead.
they use to eat dead animals or left overs of the carnivores prey
What is a baby vulture called?
it may surprise you, but a male vulture is actually called a Spork, it is the same with a male buzzard
How do turkey vultures defend themselves?
king vultures protect themselves by swooping on other things like lions and such.
it can be red,orange,yellow,green.blue,indigo,violet, or pink.
jk idk wat da color is. i need an answer for this question for a poem
All vultures are scavengers, they eat dead corpses that they find.
Why do vultures have no feathers on their heads and necks?
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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Vulture meat has been substituted for and sold to consumers as chicken in some countries. Vultures are under animal protection laws and therefore illegal to be sold as food in most countries.
What bird eats baby squirrels?
a bunch of animals can steal baby birds such as : cats (all types)l, hawks,sometimes even rats and lizards... Lets say the bird fell out of the nest. It could get eaten by any animal
What would happen if there were no vultures?
Vultures play a very important role in the balance of ecosystems. They do not hunt for food, but are scavengers, meaning they consume the flesh of animal carcasses, rather than live organisms. By doing this, they keep the environment clean and free of diseases that are caused by the decaying of organisms. These diseases include rabies and anthrax, which have an adverse effect on human and livestock populations. So, if there are no vultures, then the spread of these diseases would be greatly accelerated.
