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Who will be the first to drop in here and give us the complete google paste taxonomy and full run down all 9 different types of vultures??
On our bi annual “aren’t buzzards amazing thread” Me, of course, but I gotta run an errand just now, maybe someone else will take up the slack. Meanwhile….. Turkey vultures can find carrion by odor as well as sight. Black vultures live in stable family groups and can communicate at the roost if one has found carrion. Turkey vultures are harmless, black vultures will commence to eat downed or newborn livestock alive. Turkey vultures can go two weeks without eating with no apparent distress, likely true of black vulture too but I dunno
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its of kind of creepy when you see a road killed deer beside the road, and there are so many turkey vultures surrounding it that you can hardly see the deer
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Anybody ever eaten a vulture?
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many years ago I heard a story from a game warden about some hunters trying to roast & eat a buzzard.
They told the warden they shot a turkey.
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Got no use for them. They harrass livestock and will kill calves.
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Anybody ever eaten a vulture? Beat me to it So how do they taste
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I've been told that they make a satisfying "thwump" moments after meeting a quality pheasant load. I've heard that a 55gr Vmax has the same effect when they are on the ground.
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I always heard they were hard to kill. .22 - bang - flop - easy.
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Back when I used to shoot IHMSA flocks of Buzzards would be flying overhead thinking that they had hit the glory hole of dead chickens, pigs, turkey's and goats.
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Yes. Turkey, Black Headed vultures every day and a few Cara Caras. Here in Montgomery county too
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Hope you never scare one as it eats the last bite of long dead road kill.
If they are scared,they puke to lighten the load as they take off.
A friend came around a turn, scared a few. One puked on his car.
Rotten meat as Buzzard puke is not nice thing to have on your car going to work on a hot summer day! My father had just bought a brand-new pickup, just that day, when he looked across the creek bottom and saw a buzzard eating something. Dad being a curious sort, decided to drive over and see what the buzzard was eating. It was eating a skunk. When Dad got close, the buzzard took off and puked all over Dad's new pickup. Stunk it up REAL good. Dad just kept going right on into town, and spent almost every last dollar in his pocket at the quarter car wash, trying to get the stench off his new Ford. He wasn't too happy with buzzards that day. True story.
You can roll a turd in peanuts, dip it in chocolate, and it still ain't no damn Baby Ruth.
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We have Turkey Vultures and Black Vultures around here. Turkey vultures are the most common big bird in the sky. Black vultures are smaller and are said to be more aggressive, driving Turkey Vultures off their carrion.
Not sure why anyone would want to shoot a vulture. They make short work of the dead animals on the sides of roads. It would be pretty nasty if all we had around here cleaning up the dead animals were maggots and little furry critters.
They have made the news around here for roosting on some rooves of houses near landfills. Dozens of birds on someones roof and covering it with white vulture shyt. That'd be a reason I'd shoot them. Who will be the first to drop in here and give us the complete google paste taxonomy and full run down all 9 different types of vultures??
On our bi annual “aren’t buzzards amazing thread” Me, of course, but I gotta run an errand just now, maybe someone else will take up the slack. Meanwhile….. Turkey vultures can find carrion by odor as well as sight. Black vultures live in stable family groups and can communicate at the roost if one has found carrion. Turkey vultures are harmless, black vultures will commence to eat downed or newborn livestock alive. Turkey vultures can go two weeks without eating with no apparent distress, likely true of black vulture too but I dunno See a Black one eating the ass out of a down cow, you might want to kill one. At least if it's your cow, or you have cared for them.
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about a year ago I saw a vulture eating a road killed kitten in a parking lot Well there you go. I guess the old farmer that told me nothing will eat a dead housecat was full of kucka.
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Has anyone ever seen a crow or a buzzard eat road kill house cat?
An old farmer told me that no animal will ever eat dead house cat.
I'm not saying that is true, I just never witnessed it. That’s what this “buzzard” was eating. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/tg04t9qr/125-F2452-80-B2-4-C56-B5-A8-40638-F5735-F9.jpg)
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Grew up in Georgia and certainly saw vultures around.
Nothing like today though. They are freaking everywhere.
Is it because the deer population has grown so much?
They are absolutely lousy around here. An obscene amount of black and turkey vultures.
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vultures sure are an ugly bird.........but they sure can ride thermals
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There are both turkey and black vultures in SW OK where I grew up. Buddy and I used to lay still on the rocks in the little mountains there to see how close they would circle over us. Looking back that was pretty dumb, it wouldn't have been pretty if they had landed.
I may have heard somewhere that they don't get along too well with a .222.
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Against the law to kill them in Texas
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I’ve heard a 6mm-284 shooting 105 gr pills will unzip them pretty good.
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