International Vulture Awareness Day

International Vulture Awareness Day 2017

By Mia McPherson|September 2nd, 2017|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Turkey Vultures, Utah|Tags: adult, birds of prey, Cathartes aura, close up, coloring page, International Vulture Awareness Day, logo, thermoregulating, Turkey Vulture, vulture, vultures|

Vultures are fascinating birds and they are great for the environments around the globe that they are found in, we need to do more to help them today and every day.

International Vulture Awareness Day 2016

By Mia McPherson|September 3rd, 2016|Categories: Birds, Black Vultures, Box Elder County, Florida, Pinellas County, Roosevelt Wetlands, Turkey Vultures, Utah|Tags: birds of prey, Black Vulture, carrion, Cathartes aura, Coragyps atratus, DDT, diclofenac, immature, International Vulture Awareness Day, juvenile, perched, raptors, scavengers, thermoregulating, Turkey Vulture, vultures|

Vultures and condors are scavengers and help to clean up the environment by consuming carrion, road kill and gut piles left from the kills of human and non-human hunters.

By Mia McPherson|September 5th, 2015|Categories: Birds, Black Vultures, Box Elder County, Florida, Myakka River State Park, Pinellas County, Turkey Vultures, Utah|Tags: Black Vulture, Cathartes aura, Coragyps atratus, International Vulture Awareness Day, Turkey Vulture, vulture, vultures|

Sure, vultures aren't are handsome as Bald Eagles but they do serve an ecological function of cleaning up carrion so in essence they are nature's recyclers.