Black vultures have a graceful flight pattern with their broad wings snapped out wide like a baseball umpire signaling “safe,” per the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, while turkey vultures make ...

Black vultures are able to take over a carcass from their larger relatives through patiently waiting until a whole gang has been recruited, and then chasing off the turkey vultures as a group.

The black vulture, on the other hand, has little sense of smell. So how does it find food? In large part, it keeps track of turkey vultures and follows them to carcasses.

CAPE MAY POINT — The sighting of a black vulture used to trigger a rare bird alert at the Cape May Bird Observatory.

Remove roadkill or animal carcasses from your property as soon as possible. Use predator decoys. Hanging an owl or hawk decoy in the area can make them wary. Avoid leaving pet food outside. Shiny ...

While black vultures hunt by sight, turkey vultures hunt by sight and smell. One afternoon some years ago, while pulling into our driveway in Dalton, I noticed a lone vulture circling over the side ...

Turkey vultures are more common in this region, while the black vulture’s primary domain is Central America and much of South America, However, it can be seen in southern Missouri on occasion.

Unlike their turkey vulture cousins, which are easy to spot with their red heads, black vultures don’t always wait for their meals to be dead. “The black vultures, now that's a very, very ...

Turkey Vulture [ CATHARTES AURA ] As autumn arrives, ... Their black color helps the birds watch one another from vast distances, and when one descends to the ground, ...

The most abundant buzzard across the United States is still the turkey vulture, which sports pink skin on its head, a long tail and a V-shaped wing profile. But increasingly, it is the black ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AGFC) -- The bird of the week is the Turkey vulture, which are common statewide in Arkansas year-round. Turkey Vultures are large, dark birds with long, broad wings. They are ...