Turkey Vultures

Turkey vultures are large, dark brown birds with bald, red heads and pale bills with white tips.

International Vulture Awareness Day 2016

By |2023-09-02T04:21:07-06:00September 3rd, 2016|Categories: Birds, Black Vultures, Box Elder County, Florida, Pinellas County, Roosevelt Wetlands, Turkey Vultures, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

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.

Golden Eagle, Turkey Vultures Plus a Covey of Gray Partridges

By |2023-11-12T09:05:22-07:00August 26th, 2016|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Golden Eagles, Gray Partridges, Turkey Vultures, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I spent time in northern Utah yesterday and I was able to photograph a juvenile Golden Eagle, Turkey Vultures plus a covey of Gray Partridges.

An Exceptionally Obliging Turkey Vulture in Box Elder County

By |2021-07-16T13:24:13-06:00May 14th, 2016|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Turkey Vultures, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I found an exceptionally obliging Turkey Vulture in Box Elder County warming up in the morning sun.

Two Bald Headed Birds – Roseate Spoonbill & Turkey Vulture

By |2017-03-25T04:34:45-06:00April 22nd, 2016|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Roseate Spoonbills, Turkey Vultures, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Two bald headed birds, but very different in appearance, one is a vulture who cleans up the earth and the other a wading bird with pink and carmine plumage.

More Owls, Turkey Vultures plus a Third Year Bald Eagle

By |2020-02-02T04:49:47-07:00April 5th, 2016|Categories: Bald Eagles, Birds, Box Elder County, Short-eared Owls, Turkey Vultures, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I mentioned in my post about Short-eared Owls yesterday that I saw Burrowing Owls, Turkey Vultures and a third year Bald Eagle juvenile in northern Utah so I thought I would share a few more images form the northern Utah excursion.

Turkey Vulture in Box Elder County – Nature’s Picker Uppers

By |2021-03-12T07:45:04-07:00January 7th, 2016|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Turkey Vultures, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

When I photographed this Turkey Vulture in Box Elder County last summer it flew from the post it had been perched on and landed a bit further away where it quickly began cleaning its bill

International Vulture Awareness Day

By |2023-09-02T03:29:24-06:00September 5th, 2015|Categories: Birds, Black Vultures, Box Elder County, Florida, Myakka River State Park, Pinellas County, Turkey Vultures, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , |

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.

Seeing the tail end…

By |2024-02-25T04:50:43-07:00December 31st, 2013|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Barn Owls, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Red-tailed Hawks, Ring-necked Pheasants, Rough-legged Hawks, Tooele County, Turkey Vultures, Utah, Western Grebes|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Seeing the tail end... of 2013 on this last day of December.

Turkey Vultures might not be pretty but they are awesome at what they do

By |2021-03-12T07:49:06-07:00September 19th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Turkey Vultures, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

A bald red head, dark plumage and a white tipped bill isn't something that most people think of as handsome, regal or even good looking but Turkey Vultures are awesome at what they do.

The West Desert of Utah

By |2021-06-21T19:06:28-06:00February 29th, 2012|Categories: Horned Larks, Pronghorn, Red-tailed Hawks, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Turkey Vultures, Utah, West Desert|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I am one of those people who love deserts and the West Desert of Utah is once again beckoning to me. The weather here in Utah is very changeable right now, it can feel like spring one day and the next it still feels like winter but it won't be long before the weather levels out and the west desert will begin to green up.

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