Black Vulture

Description:

Black plumage with a featherless black head, unlike the Turkey vulture which is more common and has a pink head. In flight, you can tell a black vulture by only having white on the tips of the wings, instead of half black half white longitudinally like the turkey vulture.

Habitat:

They range from the southeastern US to central Chile and Uruguay in South America. It prefers open land interspersed with areas of woods or brush.

Notes:

I saw three black vultures feeding on this raccoon, which I assume was roadkill. I was driving, and had to turn around and go back to where they were and pull over. When I got out of my truck and started walking towards them, the two vultures that were just standing nearby flew off, but this guy that was eating the raccoon let me get about 20 feet away from him and continued eating. After about 5 minutes I guess I made him nervous because he flew off. After I went back to my truck and drove off, I went and turned around again, and when I got back to where they were they were all 3 back over at the raccoon again. Was very cool to see so close!