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I read, the are bigger than the western Condors?

The black vultures have really increased in number here in NE AL over the last several years. They are very aggressive, especially in comparison to the turkey vultures. Earlier this year a large group of black vultures with a few turkey vultures perched around one of my water troughs and wouldn't let cattle and goats get to it. The black vultures would open their wings when cattle or goats would come toward the water and swoop at the stock if they came forward. I had to persuaded them to leave.

I'm assuming it was the same group that killed a calf born at my father's a 1/2 mile away. Worried it to death and pecked the eyes out. Lot of stress on the mother as well.

I think protections should be lifted on the black vultures in any case where they are a nuisance.

You can get a permit to kill vultures if they are attacking livestock. But you have a hard burden of proof before they will issue one.

I don't think that's so.

Where do you find enough dead democrats to feed 20k buzzards?

I suppose if a rancher is checking his cattle and finds vultures trying to kill a $1000 calf, he applies for a permit to kill a vulture, after the permit arrives months later.
“Cmon man”

I'll assume they nest in spring, I don't know where the do nest however?

That's the point. The treaty needs to be repealed. If you've been paying attention, I believe Cormorants were listed on that treated as well...Ontario is now putting an open season on them.

Hopefully hawks and eagles follow suit

Our congress has a habit of passing emotional environment laws that can't be repealed even long after they've served their purpose and are now detrimental. Think feral horses and marine mammals.

Cormorants are a problem here too.

Around here, they are just ugly birds, they clean up dead stuff.

That's right.

Politics and emotions have NO place in proper wildlife management or management of invasive species.

But sadly, that's about all that the above is based on.

Make 'em?

I thought lead bullets were killing all of them?

Right, after the wolves, sea lions, buzzards, feral horses and donkeys, cormorants, racoons, get enough to eat I'm guessing we won't have much left.

I've seen Turkey Buzzards in Bluegrass area of Ky. all my life, but no Blackheaded Vultures till just a few years ago. A lot of folks thought they'd been transplanted, & like myself, didn't know they were native to the state as no-one had ever seen one here.

Cattlemen hate them & quite a few got taken care of. Then The fish & game dept. stepped in to stop that. They do offer farmers permits at times for control around calving time. Unlike the Turkey Buzzards, who rarely if ever bother a living animal, the BHV have been seen pecking the eyes out of new born calves.

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When you guys get done with them down south send 'em back up next spring.

I don't see the red headed ones much down here anymore. Don't know why.

Re: the grey fox: I use to do a lot of crow shooting. One of my spots had a fox hole nearby. When they heard my electronic caller they'd come up out of the hole and start watching the sky for falling dead crows. I kept them well fed.

I don't mind the buzzards.

They let me know when I have a problem in the pasture, either with the cattle, or poaching, etc.

Kinda hard to fool those buzzards...

Don't know but we can start feeding them