EHO (Elliot Omiya) wrote:
> OK, now I am officially embarrassed to report that at least 3 people
> tell me these are actually turkeys and not turkey vultures. Having
> never seen either of them on the ground before, I was fooled by the
> small Sibley. Sorry about that.
>
> This is why I tell people I am a photographer and not a birder. :-)
I wouldn't be too embarrassed. There is a certain resemblance, which is
why they are called turkey vultures, I suppose. We all make these
mistakes and they are the key factor in learning. If everybody on
Tweeters listed their mistakes and what they learned from them, the
messages would go on for days.

Turkey vultures do spend a lot of time on the ground but they will be
flocked around the corpse of something.

Dale

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Dale Chase
(AKA ravenintherain)
Seattle, Washington
ccorax at blarg.net