“Without turkey vultures, carcasses would accumulate and diseases would spread from rotting flesh ... feet or more into the air, their long wings forming a distinctive V-shaped silhouette ...

The sky above me is black with vultures riding the thermals ... at sunset and again in the morning when they spread out their impressively large wings, drying them in the early morning sunlight.

When the sun shines, they lift up their wings to bask ... began offering the vultures meat scraps and leftovers from time to time, and put out water for them regularly. Ken and Linda Ostrand display ...

while turkey vultures' heads are bright red (like wild turkeys). Their wings differ as well, with turkey vultures' longer, narrower wings black and gray and black vultures having black wings with ...

Black vultures (Coragyps atratus) are large birds, about 23 to 27 inches tall with a wing spread up to 5 feet with white patches at the end of their wings. They’re mostly black with a black or greyish ...

Storin said, "We fished the other half of the day with a bunch of turkey vultures spreading their wings out on my boat which is six feet wide and I felt like two or three other captains passed by ...

As scavengers, they feed on animal carcasses, which helps reduce the spread of wildlife diseases. Turkey vultures have enlarged ... Their specially adapted wings allow them to fly in near silence ...

Turkey vultures mate for life and have a unique method for courtship display in which they gather in a circle on the ground and perform ritual hopping movements around the circle. During this ritual, ...

They spread their wings to dry them off and use the sun's disinfecting rays to burn off germs. Turkey vultures and other vultures spend hours preening and bathing in clear water. The vultures ...

but if it is soaring with wings raised in a V and doing rather wobbly circles, chances are it is most likely a Turkey Vulture riding thermals to find a delectable carcass. The consummate scavenger ...

Turkey vultures may be ugly ... you see mainly the broad black wings skating with effortless grace, tip feathers spread like a musician’s fingers strumming an inaudible air.