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Kemal Coşkuner, former General Manager of Disney Channel Türkiye, has been hired to lead Spacetoon Türkiye, a new free-to-air ...
Kentucky’s native wild turkeys are spending their summer days eating, moving and raising their recently hatched poults. The ...
With summer just around the corner, I would like to highlight one of my favorite birds — the turkey vulture. For me, they conjure up hot summer days as I watch them ride and circle in the ...
Turkey vultures do not hunt prey, they scavenge for food.” According to College of Staten Island adjunct professor and ecologist Seth Wollney, the reason why Staten Islanders are catching ...
Turkey vultures have a major PR problem. Many people view them as black-feathered villains with menacing bone-colored beaks that skulk on tree branches and circle the skies waiting for animals and ...
Turkey vultures have many gross habits. They defend themselves by vomiting powerful stomach acids, and they pee and defecate on their feet to cool themselves down. (It’s called urohidrosis.) ...
Why it's awesome: These scavenger birds have an unexpected way of keeping predators away — by projectile vomiting stomach acid and semi-digested meat at their attackers. Turkey vultures live in ...
Turkey vultures deter predators by projectile vomiting gastric juices as acidic as battery acid that burns their attacker's skin and eyes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...
10 fascinating facts about vultures. Vulture diversity. There are 23 species of vultures globally, categorised into Old World vultures (Africa, Europe, and Asia) and New World vultures (Americas).
Turkey vultures are nature's cleanup crew. The turkey vulture (Cathartes aura) ranges nearly the entirety of the Western Hemisphere from northern Canada to Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of ...
A turkey vulture nest this year in an old silo in Mequon highlights the general increase and adaptability of the species in Wisconsin.