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Turkey Vulture

Cathartes aura

Photo by HemaShah
Published on Project Noah
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Description:

A Turkey Vulture Lands on a pole.

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Comments (5)
maplemoth662
Photo No. 1: is a very beautiful photo....a very beautiful, portrait photo....
HemaShah
This turkey vulture was flight training 5 of it's cute fledglings!!

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National Geographic's Great Nature Project
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PublishedSeptember 4, 2014

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