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The turkey vulture (Cathartes aura) is the most widespread of the New World vultures. [2] One of three species in the genus Cathartes of the family Cathartidae, the turkey vulture ranges from southern Canada to the southernmost tip of South America. It inhabits a variety of open and semi-open areas, including subtropical forests, shrublands ...
Turkey vultures coming in to the same roost they use for the season. All Cathartes species have featherless heads with brightly colored skin, yellow to orange in the yellow-headed vultures, bright red in the turkey vulture. All three species share a well-developed sense of smell, which is rare in birds, that enables them to locate carrion under ...
They’re also not a cross between a turkey and a vulture, they’re a type of vulture. Buzzards, scientifically known as black or turkey vultures, on a light pole. “They’re no more similar ...
They were especially common in the gut with Clostridia DNA sequence counts between 26% and 85% relative to total sequence counts, and Fusobacteriota between 0.2% and 54% in black vultures and 2% to 69% of all counts in turkey vultures. Unexpectedly, both groups of anaerobic bacteria were also found on the air-exposed facial skin samples, with ...
The turkey vultures we see in Wisconsin are migratory. They spend the winter in the southern U.S. or even, as documented in at least one bird tagged in work by Hartman and Mossman, in South America.
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Like the Old World vultures, they are scavengers. However, unlike Old World vultures, which find carcasses by sight, New World vultures have a good sense of smell with which they locate carcasses. Black vulture, Coragyps atratus (A) Turkey vulture, Cathartes aura (I)
Like the Old World vultures, they are scavengers. However, unlike Old World vultures, which find carcasses by sight, New World vultures have a good sense of smell with which they locate carrion. King vulture, Sarcoramphus papa; Black vulture, Coragyps atratus; Turkey vulture, Cathartes aura; Lesser yellow-headed vulture, Cathartes burrovianus