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  1. The post-preen ruffle-shuffle

    The post-preen ruffle-shuffle

    Even a Turkey Vulture's gotta look his best. This one was sitting on the edge of a roof having a preen and a shake-out.
    • Doc Duck
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    • cathartes aura turkey vulture
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: North America
  2. Turkey vulture

    Turkey vulture

    This guy was resting atop a road sign on my walk home. I think it's one of the locals that roosts a mile away at Sonoma State University. This distance was so short, I had to zoom out to capture him (or her) in all his glory.
    • MelospizaMelodiaFan
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    • cathartes aura
    • Comments: 8
    • Category: North America
  3. Turkey Vulture

    Turkey Vulture

    Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura aura)
    • Stanley Jones
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    • bell county belton cathartes aura subsp. aura texas turkey vulture usa
    • Comments: 13
    • Category: North America
  4. Turkey vulture

    Turkey vulture

    Although they're not exactly warm and fuzzy, I think turkey vultures are kind of cool - unless you crawl out of bed and find seven them circling over your driveway. (Went outside and did a sniff test; didn't find anything).
    • Barbie Heid
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    • birds of north america buzzard carion eating birds cathartes aura large black bird new world buzzrd scavenger birds turkey vulture vultures
    • Comments: 9
    • Category: North America
  5. Head On!

    Head On!

    That was close! :o
    • Victor Vector
    • Media item
    • california cathartes aura flight mojave river wildlife refuge turkey vulture
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: North America
  6. Smoked Turkey

    Smoked Turkey

    A flock of migrating Turkey Vultures is grounded as smoke from California's wildfires engulfs the region.
    • Victor Vector
    • Media item
    • cathartes aura turkey vulture
    • Comments: 13
    • Category: North America
  7. Flex

    Flex

    The Turkey vulture migration is numerous this early fall. Caught this guy sunning yesterday morning. Today there were well over 50 up at once with Swaisons Hawks mixed in flying in the same formations/thermals.
    • Victor Vector
    • Media item
    • cathartes aura turkey vulture
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  8. Boo!

    Boo!

    Noticed something big perched in the thick forest and zeroed in on this guy.
    • Victor Vector
    • Media item
    • cathartes aura turkey vulture
    • Comments: 7
    • Category: North America
  9. Soaring around

    Soaring around

    Turkey Vulture Large, with long wings. Black body contrast with gray flight feathers and tail and naked bright red head.
    • KC Foggin
    • Media item
    • cathartes aura flight myrtle beach sc turkey vulture usa
    • Comments: 21
    • Category: North America
  10. Turkey Vulture

    Turkey Vulture

    • Fritz73
    • Media item
    • brazil cathartes aura flight turkey vulture
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  11. BFAD1B2B-0A87-4039-862D-EE7FBD30901D.jpeg

    BFAD1B2B-0A87-4039-862D-EE7FBD30901D.jpeg

    Turkey Vulture - Gather round, gather round, I’m just warming up!
    • GracieChun
    • Media item
    • carara national park cathartes aura costa rica turkey vulture vulture
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  12. Turkey vulture

    Turkey vulture

    Not a skeksis
    • MergusSerrator
    • Media item
    • cathartes aura new jersey turkey vulture usa
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: North America
  13. Handstand

    Handstand

    Turkey Vulture The turkey vulture, also known in some North American regions as the turkey buzzard, and in some areas of the Caribbean as the John crow or carrion crow, is the most widespread of the New World vultures.
    • KC Foggin
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    • cathartes aura turkey vultuer___cathartes aura turkey vulture
    • Comments: 18
    • Category: North America
  14. Turkey Vulture.JPG

    Turkey Vulture.JPG

    In a Havana Park they where very approachable
    • hindleygreener
    • Media item
    • cathartes aura cuba havana turkey vulture
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: The Caribbean
  15. Turkey Vulture.jpeg

    Turkey Vulture.jpeg

    Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura aura)
    • Stanley Jones
    • Media item
    • cathartes aura somerville texas turkey vulture usa
    • Comments: 12
    • Category: North America
  16. Turkey_Vulture_w-_Black_Vulture

    Turkey_Vulture_w-_Black_Vulture

    One evening at our campsite a Turkey Vulture showed up to roost in a nearby snag. Shortly thereafter a pair of Black Vulture showed up and noisily objected to the intruder into what they apparently thought of as their territory. The TV soon gave up the roost which the BV used for the next...
    • Owen Krout
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    • cathartes aura coragyps atratus turkey vulture; black vulture
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  17. Turkey Vulture

    Turkey Vulture

    • jirijech
    • Media item
    • cathartes aura costa rica turkey vulture vulture
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  18. Turkey Vulture

    Turkey Vulture

    Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura subsp. ruficollis) Sexes similar. Camp Darin, Darin Province, Panam. Disturbed tropical lowland rainforest (mixed evergreen and deciduous forest) at 110 m (361 ft) elevation.
    • Stanley Jones
    • Media item
    • cathartes aura subsp. ruficollis turkey vulture
    • Comments: 9
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  19. Turkey Vulture - Gallinazo o Jote Cabeza Colorada

    Turkey Vulture - Gallinazo o Jote Cabeza Colorada

    • Luis R
    • Media item
    • arica cathartes aura chile. gallinazo jote cabeza colorada luis r figueroa rio lluta turkey vulture
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  20. Turkey Vulture

    Turkey Vulture

    Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura subsp. aura) Fly by. Margin of Stillhouse Hollow Lake in Rivers Bend Park, southwest of Belton, Bell County, Texas, USA. A crossroads of the Edwards Plateau and the Blackland Prairies Vegetational Areas. About 192 m (630 ft) elevation.
    • Stanley Jones
    • Media item
    • bell county belton cathartes aura texas turkey vulture usa
    • Comments: 17
    • Category: North America
  21. Turkey Vulture

    Turkey Vulture

    Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura subsp. ruficollis) Sexes similar. South of Tarapoto, San Martn, Per. Ro Huallaga Valley, xerophytic scrub at ca. 290 m (951ft) elevation.
    • Stanley Jones
    • Media item
    • cathartes aura subsp. ruficollis tarapoto turkey vulture
    • Comments: 14
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  22. Turkey Vulture - Oripopo

    Turkey Vulture - Oripopo

    Flying near the mountain
    • Luis R
    • Media item
    • barinitas cathartes aura luis r figueroa oripopo turkey vulture venezuela
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  23. Pretty Boy

    Pretty Boy

    Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura subsp. septentrionalis) Sexes similar. Photographed in Riverside Park, Victoria, Victoria County, Texas, USA. Open park-like setting with scattered hardwoods adjacent to a wooded riparian area at ca. 29 m (95 ft) elevation.
    • Stanley Jones
    • Media item
    • cathartes aura riverside park subsp. septentrionalis texas turkey vulture usa victoria victoria county
    • Comments: 22
    • Category: North America
  24. Turkey Vulture

    Turkey Vulture

    Taken at the Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline. I estimate the distance was at least 50m. I have been trying to get a decent photo of these very common vultures for years, one that showed that red head. Mission accomplished.
    • CalvinFold
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    • cathartes aura turkey vulture
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: North America
  25. Turkey Vulture

    Turkey Vulture

    Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura subsp. ruficollis) Sexes similar. Photographed in Bosque de Pmac, northeast of Tcume, Lambayeque Department, Peru. Equatorial dry forest at ca. 70 m (230 ft) elevation. Upper reaches of the Maraon Valley.
    • Stanley Jones
    • Media item
    • cathartes aura lambayeque department peru subsp. ruficollis turkey vulture
    • Comments: 12
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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