The most widespread vulture in North America, the turkey vulture is locally called ... The zone-tailed hawk and golden eagle will mimic the wing dihedral when hunting, and dark-morph Swainson ...

At first, I thought it was a red-tailed hawk – but no ... a couple of birder friends who identified the newcomer as a turkey vulture. I had never heard of them before so, of course, I had ...

The flight of a vulture ... Turkey vultures have an almost eagle-level, 6-foot wingspan, while weighing much less at just over 4 pounds. But their flight talents go beyond mere size.

Turkey vultures ... Like many other species of vulture, these birds feed on the remains of already dead animals, rather than ...

Looking out the kitchen window while waiting for coffee to brew, there was a huge turkey vulture sitting on the hawk perch I’ve installed at the edge of the hill that slopes off into the native ...

Longtime Marin residents will remember the late Elizabeth Terwilliger’s famous mnemonic for telling the difference between a flying hawk and a flying turkey vulture: “V is for vulture!” ...

A turkey vulture was recently re-sighted after being trapped and tagged more than a decade ago by Hawk Mountain Sanctuary with its tracking unit still working. “The solar power comes through the ...

Vic, a turkey vulture that resides at the Rosamond Gifford ... They stand around 30 inches and appear about half the size of an eagle. Adult turkey vultures are easily identifiable by their ...