turkey vulture
noun
: an American vulture (Cathartes aura) with a red head and whitish bill
called also turkey buzzard
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The megafauna didn’t survive that change, but smaller animals like coyotes, mule deer, raccoons and turkey vultures adapted and managed to hang on, and so did many plants.
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Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2024
The scavengers, for example, the turkey vultures or the coyotes that use roadkill as this resource, essentially.
—Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2024
The 2017 eclipse also inspired two animal behaviorists to study its impact on turkey vultures at the Joseph A. Sgaggero Memorial Park in Dover Plains, New York, on Aug. 21, 2017, as documented in a March 2018 article in The Kingbird, a quarterly journal devoted to New York State ornithology.
—Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 25 Mar. 2024
Within a day, turkey vultures had found 23 of them.
—Jack Gedney, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2024
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Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2024
The scavengers, for example, the turkey vultures or the coyotes that use roadkill as this resource, essentially.
—Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2024
The 2017 eclipse also inspired two animal behaviorists to study its impact on turkey vultures at the Joseph A. Sgaggero Memorial Park in Dover Plains, New York, on Aug. 21, 2017, as documented in a March 2018 article in The Kingbird, a quarterly journal devoted to New York State ornithology.
—Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 25 Mar. 2024
Within a day, turkey vultures had found 23 of them.
—Jack Gedney, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2024
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