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Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > Wild animals > Birds & birdwatching
Few animals have a worse reputation than the vulture. But is it
deserved? With Vulture, Katie Fallon offers an irresistible
argument to the contrary, tracing a year in the life of a typical
North American turkey vulture. Turkey vultures, also known as
buzzards, are the most widely distributed and abundant scavenging
birds of prey on the planet, found from central Canada to the
southern tip of Argentina and nearly everywhere in between. Deftly
drawing on the most up-to-date scientific papers and articles and
weaving those in with interviews with world-renowned raptor and
vulture experts and her own compelling natural history writing,
Fallon examines all aspects of the bird’s natural history:
breeding, incubating eggs, raising chicks, migrating, and roosting.
The result is an intimate portrait of an underappreciated
bird—one you’ll never look at in the same way again.
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