Body size: 28" [71.1 cm] - Wingspread: 72" [182.9 cm]- American vulture
Mostly black; brown-tinged above; head small, naked, red; bill yellow; soars with
wings 25 degrees above horizontal, seldom flaps; tail long, rounded, pale silver
flight feathers seen from below. Nightly communal roosts.
MR reports: Turkey Vulture roosts in the north end of the village at Cerrillos
with as many as 20 birds during summer.
IN OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS
Sighted at the Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve (a lush, well-watered
preserve 3 miles [4.8 kilometers] north of Cerro Bonanza, near La Ciénega.)
Turkey Vulture - SUMMER
Sighted at the
Ortiz Mountains Educational Preserve (an isolated high mountain group --
7,000 to 9,000 feet [2,133.6 to 2,743.2 meters] elevation -- eight miles [12.9
kilometers] south of Cerrillos.)
Turkey Vulture - Apr '03, May '03
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