Book description
Turkey vultures, the most widely distributed and abundant scavenging birds of prey on the planet, are found from central Canada to the southern tip of Argentina, and nearly everywhere in between. In the United States we sometimes call them buzzards; in parts of Mexico the name is aura cabecirroja, in…
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Katie Fallon does a very cool thing here. First, she loves her some vultures. Second, she open your eyes to a whole lot of natural history you don't know. And third, this is no field guide and certainly no scientific paper. Instead, she structures her book within the spring, summer, autumn, winter of a single year and then weaves in historical notes (the ancient Egyptians, who like Katie, loved them some vultures), biological realities (vultures throw up to cool off), and personal anecdotes (a trip to the Hinckley, Ohio Buzzard Festival where they love them some vultures, too!)
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