A look at turkey vultures and California .
With Thanksgiving coming up, people have birds on their mind. But today we’ll talk about the type of turkey in our skies year-round, and you wouldn’t want one near your table.People will often mistakenly call turkey vultures buzzards, which is the British name for certain hawks.Groups of vultures spiraling upward to gain altitude are called kettles. As vultures catch thermal updrafts they take on the appearance of water boiling in a pot – hence the name kettle.
Turkey vultures have been known to live up to 24 years. The average age is guessed to be around 20 years.The turkey vulture is in the same family as the California condor and the black vulture, which lives primarily in the south and southeast portions of the U.S.
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