Turkey Vulture / Buzzard
Cathartes aura
37.4422, -122.163
Field Notes
Description:
Turkey vultures have the ability to smell, unlike most birds, and uses this sense to scavenge for meals by detecting the stench of dying carcasses.
(it can "pick up the scent of ethyl mercaptan, a gas produced by the beginnings of decay in dead animals." -wikipedia page
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