Can anyone tell me what kind of bird this is?
May 29, 2010 by
Filed under Concrete Bird Baths
A buddy and I were at Great Falls National Park last week and took a bunch of pictures, one of which is this bird in mid-flight. I looked around on the internet to try and find out what it was but I can’t get anything concrete. I was thinking maybe a turkey vulture or black vulture but then again there are some major carachteristics missing in both. Any help?!
Check out the entire album too for some great pictures, especially of some blue heron’s.
That face has quality’s of a vulture. But I am probably wrong.
Appears to be a Turkey Vulture
Google Bird Photos
Gallery, and click on the name
dude in Pa. we call that a turkey buzzard.
that is definately a turkey vulture. no doubt about it.
I loved the photos taken at Great Falls…Yes it’s a Turkey Vulture we have tons here in Kansas…And we also have the Blue Heron’s also. Awesome. Thank you for sharing your photos.
It is a turkey vulture in classic soaring flight.
“Description 25-32″ (64-81 cm). W. 6′ (1.8 m). Eagle-sized blackish bird, usually seen soaring over the countryside. In flight, the long wings are held upward in a wide, shallow V; flight feathers silvery below. Tail long; head small, bare, and reddish; gray in immatures. Similar to Black Vulture, but wings narrower; flaps wings less frequently and rolls and sways from side to side.”
http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/detail.asp?allSpecies=y&searchText=turkey+vulture&curGroupID=1&lgfromWhere=&curPageNum=1
turkey vulture
Turkey Vulture: It has a red bald head (no feathers), long wing span, all black body, has talons like a hawk or eagel.
That is a Turkey Vulture.
http://www.calliebowdish.com/Birds/TurkeyVultureShaverLake090606_7491.jpg
Thats a Turkey Vulture, and you can see the resemblance of the this pic to your pic.