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Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
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Wicked Photos
Posts: 7699
New York, New York, US
what part of ny are you in?
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Hoodlum
Posts: 10254
Sacramento, California, US
Not if your in NY
What you saw was a Turkey Vulture
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Done and Gone
Posts: 7650
Chiredzi, Masvingo, Zimbabwe
Looks like a buzzard to me, not a condor.
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Laurence Moan
Posts: 7844
Huntington Beach, California, US
Jules NYC wrote:
Damn!
Peacefully cruising along and *Poof* out of nowhere a Condor flies right across my path.
Is this an omen? LOL
![https://www.animalspirits.com/vulture.jpg]()
http://www.animalspirits.com/index9.html
Those birds are HUGE! California's are huger.
Just sayin'...
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Too Hot For Snakes
Posts: 5596
TERLINGUA, Texas, US
Turkey Vulture maybe, Condor, no
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Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
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Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
Laurence Moan wrote:
California's are huger.
Just sayin'... Ha ha
Sounds like a penis size argument.
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Done and Gone
Posts: 7650
Chiredzi, Masvingo, Zimbabwe
You are lucky it didn't puke on you, buzzard puke is truly vile.
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Hoodlum
Posts: 10254
Sacramento, California, US
Jules NYC wrote:
I'm in Connecticut right now:)
and technically I think it is a Turkey Vulture, a large vulture = Condor.
http://vulturesociety.homestead.com/TVFacts.html Vultures and condors are not the same they are a completely different species. Condors are WAY bigger.
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Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
Hoodlum wrote:
Vultures and condors are not the same they are a completely different species. Condors are WAY bigger. Is this wrong?
http://vulturesociety.homestead.com/TVFacts.html
Vultures are large, carrion-eating birds that are excellent at soaring flight. Like lions and other large predators, vultures eat meat, but unlike lions, vultures do not need to kill to survive. There are 15 species of Old World (Europe, Africa, and Asia) vultures and 7 Species of New World (North and South America) vultures, including two species of condors. (Condors are just big vultures.)
So the turkey vulture is NOT a condor (not of the two species, yes)
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Hoodlum
Posts: 10254
Sacramento, California, US
Jules NYC wrote:
Is this wrong?
http://vulturesociety.homestead.com/TVFacts.html
Vultures are large, carrion-eating birds that are excellent at soaring flight. Like lions and other large predators, vultures eat meat, but unlike lions, vultures do not need to kill to survive. There are 15 species of Old World (Europe, Africa, and Asia) vultures and 7 Species of New World (North and South America) vultures, including two species of condors. (Condors are just big vultures.) Maybe but I remember from some collage classes I took and they said they were a different species like for example a brown and black bear are.
From Wikipedia
The New World Vulture or Condor family Cathartidae contains seven species in five genera, all but one of which are monotypic. It includes five vultures and two condors found in warm and temperate areas of the Americas.
The only condor in North America is right on parts of the west coast.
I know if your not expecting it they can really startle you. I one time had a bald Eagle grab a trout right off my fishing line as I was getting ready to net it. The eagle came with 8 to 9 feet of me and ya that was a starling experience. 
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Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
Hoodlum wrote:
Maybe but I remember from some collage classes I took and they said they were a different species like for example a brown and black bear are.
From Wikipedia
The New World Vulture or Condor family Cathartidae contains seven species in five genera, all but one of which are monotypic. It includes five vultures and two condors found in warm and temperate areas of the Americas.
The only condor in North America is right on parts of the west coast. Interesting:)
Well, I'm pretty sure it was a turkey vulture...
Nevertheless, I see vultures all the time when I go hiking but not as close as this experience, ha ha
Full wings spread out and I'm thinking, "Oh please don't let me hit him."
Two foxes crossed my path in the last two weeks too.
http://www.animalspirits.com/index6.html
I'm into signs of the universe:)
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Hoodlum
Posts: 10254
Sacramento, California, US
Jules NYC wrote:
Interesting:)
Well, I'm pretty sure it was a turkey vulture...
Nevertheless, I see vultures all the time when I go hiking but not as close as this experience, ha ha
Full wings spread out and I'm thinking, "Oh please don't let me hit him."
Two foxes crossed my path in the last two weeks too.
http://www.animalspirits.com/index6.html
I'm into signs of the universe:) I bet as ya they do look huge when you get up close to one. I have only seen true Condors from a long ways away.
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Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
Hoodlum wrote:
I bet as ya they do look huge when you get up close to one. I have only seen true Condors from a long ways away. I'm a big bird fancier.
Literally.
... and it's pretty funny when I go hiking and they circle over me.
I'm like... hey man, I'm not dead yet!
LOL
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Paul Bryson Photography
Posts: 48041
Hollywood, Florida, US
I dodge those things every day at work. Flying through a flock of them is scary as hell.
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Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
Paul Bryson Photography wrote:
I dodge those things every day at work. Flying through a flock of them is scary as hell. Oh man!
A flock of them?
I would LOVE to do a photoshoot like that... Hitchcock style.
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Hoodlum
Posts: 10254
Sacramento, California, US
Paul Bryson Photography wrote:
I dodge those things every day at work. Flying through a flock of them is scary as hell. Could one of the things take down a small plane?
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Natasha240
Posts: 6438
Cassina de' Pecchi, Lombardy, Italy
I adore Turkey Vultures. We have TONS of them here. In fact, I just showed my wife a place where hundreds of them roost, about 1/4 mile from here. If I was any kind of photographer, I'd go out and take some photos.
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scrymettet
Posts: 33239
Quebec, Quebec, Canada
Jules NYC wrote:
Oh man!
A flock of them?
I would LOVE to do a photoshoot like that... Hitchcock style. have them fed before
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Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
scrymettet wrote:
have them fed before Ha ha
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Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
Natasha240 wrote:
I adore Turkey Vultures. We have TONS of them here. In fact, I just showed my wife a place where hundreds of them roost, about 1/4 mile from here. If I was any kind of photographer, I'd go out and take some photos. As a model, I bet you would be a great photographer!
Take some pics... nature is cool.
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scrymettet
Posts: 33239
Quebec, Quebec, Canada
Jules NYC wrote:
Ha ha I saw what they can do with a goat.
feed them well or you are appetizers
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scrymettet
Posts: 33239
Quebec, Quebec, Canada
Jules NYC wrote:
As a model, I bet you would be a great photographer! God thanks that the contrary is not as true
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Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
scrymettet wrote:
I saw what they can do with a goat.
feed them well or you are appetizers Yikes!
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Herman Surkis
Posts: 10856
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Had one last week head straight for my window while I was on my computer. I thought it was going to fly into the room with me, and since the window was open...It made a hard right 10 ft from my window. How do I know 10ft? Because its left wing tips brushed the railing, which is 10ft away.
If it had come in and panicked, it might have yakked all over the computer and I would have had to throw it away. Or just plain move out of the house.
I have had to evict a Piliated Woodpecker from my kitchen, numbers of other woodpeckers, hummingbirds from the living room etc. But the Turkey Vulture would have been the biggest and most memorable (in more then one way).
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Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
Herman Surkis wrote:
Had one last week head straight for my window while I was on my computer. I thought it was going to fly into the room with me, and since the window was open...It made a hard right 10 ft from my window. How do I know 10ft? Because its left wing tips brushed the railing, which is 10ft away.
If it had come in and panicked, it might have yakked all over the computer and I would have had to throw it away. Or just plain move out of the house.
I have had to evict a Piliated Woodpecker from my kitchen, numbers of other woodpeckers, hummingbirds from the living room etc. But the Turkey Vulture would have been the biggest and most memorable (in more then one way). Holy Shit! That is crazy!
Check this out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6OGp1tG … re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U8i4EN5 … re=related
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scrymettet
Posts: 33239
Quebec, Quebec, Canada
Jules NYC wrote:
Yikes! less voracious then photographers but hardly
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Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
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Brooklyn Bridge Images
Posts: 13200
Brooklyn, New York, US
I used to watch them sail gracefully riding the thermals
Watching them fly put me in a Zen state
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scrymettet
Posts: 33239
Quebec, Quebec, Canada
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Natasha240
Posts: 6438
Cassina de' Pecchi, Lombardy, Italy
scrymettet wrote:
I saw what they can do with a goat.
feed them well or you are appetizers Turkey vultures have no interest in moving or live things.
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Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
Natasha240 wrote:
Turkey vultures have no interest in moving or live things. No reason to be afraid then:)
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Frances Jewel
Posts: 9149
Dayton, Ohio, US
We have a couple acres on the Miami River, we have Turkey Vultures in our yard on occasion. had one sunning itself in the yard the other day! We also have been spotting Bald Eagles. I love my place!
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Bill Bates
Posts: 3850
Payson, Utah, US
I was I had a good side by side of a turkey vulture and a California condor. Condors are about twice as larger with a 9 to 12 foot wing span compared to the 5 or 6 foot wing span of a turkey vulture. When you see the two together the Condors look huge. Condor 7 ![https://www.pbase.com/slowpokebill/image/42533833.jpg]() T and a rock wren which as about the size of a robin ![https://www.pbase.com/slowpokebill/image/42561482.jpg]() Turkey Vultures ![https://www.pbase.com/image/56713703.jpg]()
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Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
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Light Writer
Posts: 18391
Phoenix, Arizona, US
It's not an omen, I see them just about every day. My place backs onto a large park, I see them just about every day.
If you want to interpret it as an omen, see it as an omen of change, rebirth and recycling. Recycling- that's when you discover you need a different seat for your new bike.
carry on
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misszara
Posts: 6715
Seoul, Seoul, Korea (South)
Laurence Moan wrote:
California's are huger.
Just sayin'... "huger" ?
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Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
Niall Photo wrote:
It's not an omen, I see them just about every day. My place backs onto a large park, I see them just about every day.
If you want to interpret it as an omen, see it as an omen of change, rebirth and recycling. Recycling- that's when you discover you need a different seat for your new bike.
carry on A Good Omen:)
I pay attention to many things.
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We also have been spotting Bald Eagles. I love my place!
