turkey vulture numbers, Michigan (1 Viewer)

I am a newspaper reporter seeking information about turkey vultures. They seem to be very abundant in southwest Michigan at the moment, and a local authority suggested that I check the internet to see if anyone has posted any counts. He said it is normal for them to be migrating through the area this time of year. I am wondering why I am seeing so many of them-- several on roadkill over the past few weeks whereas in the past I've been lucky to see one or two birds a year.
Any thoughts, numbers, or direction to sites?
Rosemary

Hi Rosemary,

Welcome to Birdforum from all the Staff here!

I think you've come to the right place to get the answers you need. I'm sure someone will be along soon to help you out.

Cheers,

Andy.

Hi again Rosemary,

A quick Google came up with this:-

http://www.smrr.net/what.shtml

Should give you something to go on for a while - don't forget to check back later!

Andy.

On 31 October 1998 I travelled over the Chesapeake Bridge and down to Salisbury, Maryland and then back again the next day. Didn't stop to bird; just travelling. Even then there were plenty of Turkey Vultures in the sky - counted about 100.

I'm in SE--not SW--Michigan, where TV's are very, very common from early March until mid-November. The last few seem to have left just recently.

Bill

TV in Panama

Hi Rosemery:

Here in Panama, central america, we still having TV´s migrating over Panama city and this seems to be very unusual since other years the migration is over by mid-november.
Panama Audubond Society together with Hawk Mountain sanctuary set up an ocean to ocean raptors count for the very first year here in Panama. As a result we had counted more than 3 millions raptors.
The count was supposed to be finish by november 14 but during november 13,14 and 15 about 250,000 raptors (mostly TV) flew over Panama.
Today, 8 days after the normal ending of the migration we still having thousands of TV flying over Panama city Skyline.
It seem that the population had grown in the las 5 years.

I will keep you updated with the final numbers of our count to see if that information could help you.