Cattle and Falcons - Animal Rights Zone

I and the Bird: What is a Vulture?

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

New World Vultures are their own family, Cathartidae, that has moved around a bit with the proliferation of genetic testing such that for a while they were thought to be allied with storks, but is now pretty well within, but not too within, the other diurnal raptors.

California Condor

California Condor Turkey North America Jordan

Saving the Drowning Cormorant, or the Kerkini Lake, Greece

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

We are entering the mixed colony of 11 species ( Grey , Squacco , Purple and Black-crowned Night Herons ; Great , Little and, recently, Cattle Egrets ; Eurasian Spoonbill (below) and Glossy Ibis ; Pygmy and Great Cormorant ). These visits are strictly regulated and the birds are habituated to people, showing no reaction to our presence.

Greece

Greece Pelicans Buffalo Fish

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I and the Bird: What is a Vulture?

Saving the Drowning Cormorant, or the Kerkini Lake, Greece

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