What Kind of Bird is This?
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I understand that vultures eat carrion and would think they would be on the ground eating it if that is where they found it.In the second photo I did not crop out the head or anything,the bird's head was pointed downward as it tore at the squirrel.I could clearly see the squirrel but it did not show very well in the photo.
I must have been about ten or fifteen feet from the bird and I was quite surprised that it did not fly off when I positioned my phone for the shots.
It's definitely a juvenile turkey vulture. Although there are black vultures in eastern Pennsylvania, the head shape, and more specifically the shape of the bill is different. Ornithology is my other obsession!
We get lots of them around here. Wife took a picture of one just down the street from our house. I think it was on my old phone.
It's a juvenile turkey vulture before development of a red head in adult. It's a southern bird but becoming more common nowadays in the northeast following road kills along I-95. They were absent in my neighborhood until a few years ago and I can't stop not seeing them whenever there are dead squarrel on the street.
It was cool spotting a bird that I have never seen in this area before.If they are actually starting to populate my area I look forward to seeing them soaring around in the skies.
