Turkey Vulture (Photograph Courtesy of Sheldon Glucksman Copyright ©2000)

Turkey Vulture (Photograph Courtesy of Sheldon Glucksman Copyright ©2000)

 An excellent close-up of a Turkey Vulture showing the featherless head, an adaptation to help keep the head clean when feeing from a carcass. On these birds the head is very small in proportion to the body mass.

Photograph Courtesy Of:

Sheldon Glucksman -- (Copyright © 2000)

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