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Turkey Vulture / Buzzard

Cathartes aura

Photo by claunchie
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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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Awesome Pic !!
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PublishedJanuary 12, 2013

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