Turkey Vulture

About the Turkey Vultures

LIFESPAN: 20 years

MASS: 3.3 pounds

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Cathartes aura

SPECIE: Bird

DIET: Scavenger

WINGSPAN: 160-183 cm

Turkey Vulture Nest

The Turkey vultures don't build nests but instead they lay eggs directly on the ground.

What They Eat

Turkey vultures eat decomposing animals and they also eat pumpkins, coconuts, jumper berries and grapes.

Where They Live

Where Turkey vultures mostly live in North America in the North part of Texas.

How They Attack and Protect Themselves

How they defend themselves is they like to stay in the air They sweep down on dead corps They survive by projectile vomiting to scare predators away.

When/Where It Migrates

it usually migrates is in December\Winter but it can migrate in other months if needed to. They migrate in/out of America they are more migratory in the west than in the east.

Migration Route

This is the migration path for the Turkey Vulture