do vultures eat other vultures?
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In short, turkey vultures will often bypass carcasses of cats, dogs, and coyotes. They will, however, eat such carcasses in the absence of more desirable food. Therefore, since vultures are not herbivores, they'll only eat a dead vulture if they're really hungry.
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Raccoons, weasels, possums, muskrats, and minks kill and devour on the spot. ... The fact that neither the head nor the crop were eaten by the killer tends to suggest that it was not likely a raccoon, possum or muskrat that ate your chicken. These notorious predators usually consume those parts of the bird.
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Females weigh between 13 to 20 lbs (6 to 9 kg). ... Male and female plumage is identical. Diet: A hunting carnivore and an apex predator, the harpy eagle preys primarily on tree-dwelling mammals like sloths, monkeys, and opossums. They will occasionally prey on other birds like macaws, and on reptiles like iguanas.
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What's actually smarter than even eagles are vultures. ... Eagles are up at the top of the intelligence end for birds of prey, owls are down at the low end (“Owls are as thick as two short planks.” Jemima Parry Jones ICBP . What's actually smarter than even eagles are vultures.
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Vultures Can Be Called Buzzards While buzzards and vultures are distinctly named and separated in Europe, Africa, and Asia, some birds go by both names in North America. ... The name stuck, and even today the North American vultures may still be commonly called buzzards, turkey buzzards, or black buzzards.
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Birds of prey such as hawks, falcons, eagles, osprey, vultures, and owls are familiar carnivorous birds, but many other types of birds also consume a fair amount of meat and could be classified as carnivores.
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A modern explanation of seeing vultures in a dream suggests that you probably have dangerous enemies. The dream that you kill a vulture indicates that you will win over your troubles. If in your dream you see a vulture devouring its prey, it means that your troubles will end and you will get lucky.
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Turkey vultures, on the other hand, have silver-gray colored feathers on the trailing edge of the underside of their wings. You can also see that condors have large pink and orange heads, while turkey vultures have very small red heads. ... They do flap their wings, but not as often as other birds such as turkey vultures.
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Male and female plumage is identical. Diet: A hunting carnivore and an apex predator, the harpy eagle preys primarily on tree-dwelling mammals like sloths, monkeys, and opossums. They will occasionally prey on other birds like macaws, and on reptiles like iguanas.
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Birds of Prey Eagles and hawks have been observed attacking owls, but they usually aren't looking for food. The birds may be involved, instead, in a territorial dispute. Disputes are not common, though, between other birds of prey and the large owl species.
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Vultures are state and federally protected as a migratory bird, therefore it is unlawful to harm or kill them without a permit from the US Fish and Wildlife Service. If however, the vulture is tearing up a screen porch, or chewing up shingles or roofs, then you may want to consider scaring them with Pyrotechnics.
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Adult loons are rarely prey for other species, with the possible exception of sea otters and large raptors such as bald eagles and ospreys. However, their eggs and chicks are eaten by raccoons, ravens, bald eagles, minks, gulls, crows, snapping turtles, skunks, foxes, northern pike, and muskies.
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The Peregrine Falcon feeds on small and medium-sized birds, as well as rabbits and other day-active mammals. It swoops down on its prey from above, catching or stunning it with its powerfully hooked talons, before grasping and carrying it off to a perch to pluck and eat it.
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In the wild, lesser Madagascar tenrecs are opportunistic feeders; they will forage on the ground and in trees for invertebrates. They will also eat some other small animals, such as baby mice.
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Surprisingly, though most birds lack any sense of smell , vultures can sniff out a dead critter from more than a mile away. "They smell the unique sulphurous chemical compounds of decaying meat from high in the sky, then will circle around downwards until they find the aroma's origin," Woterbeek said.
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The vultures fly high above the cow keeping their eyes out for afterbirth. Black vultures usually feed together and are so aggressive other vultures will stay away. The Black Vulture is protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
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Blue Jays are known to take and eat eggs and nestlings of other birds, but we don't know how common this is. In an extensive study of Blue Jay feeding habits, only 1% of jays had evidence of eggs or birds in their stomachs. Most of their diet was composed of insects and nuts.