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« Reply #15 on: December 27, 2015, 11:50:51 PM »
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« Reply #16 on: December 29, 2015, 01:51:47 AM »
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« Reply #17 on: December 31, 2015, 11:09:16 AM »
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« Reply #18 on: January 01, 2016, 05:14:08 AM »
Vultures, nature's masters of renewal, are the perfect mascots for New Year's Eve. Great video and photos.

http://www.onearth.org/earthwire/african-vultures-renewal-new-year

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« Reply #19 on: January 01, 2016, 12:52:13 PM »
Awesome photo, T40.  Thanks for the NatGeo link, too.

Happy 2016 to everyone!
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« Reply #20 on: January 02, 2016, 01:10:11 AM »
Thanks to oldguy for posting this in the DE15 thread! It's a simply fascinating story from 2013.

Rise and fall of the great Decorah Turkey Vulture roost

http://decorahnewspapers.com/Content/Social/Social/Article/Rise-and-fall-of-the-great-Decorah-Turkey-Vulture-roost/-2/-2/30552
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« Reply #21 on: January 02, 2016, 10:59:00 AM »
Quote from: T40cfr403 on January 02, 2016, 01:10:11 AM
Thanks to oldguy for posting this in the DE15 thread! It's a simply fascinating story from 2013.

Rise and fall of the great Decorah Turkey Vulture roost

http://decorahnewspapers.com/Content/Social/Social/Article/Rise-and-fall-of-the-great-Decorah-Turkey-Vulture-roost/-2/-2/30552


Thanks to T40 for sharing oldguy's post of this article, and thanks to oldguy, too!

WOW!!!  That is a fascinating story!!!  Wayyyy worth the read time!!!  It is very easy to read, and written by Tex A. Sordahl, Professor of Biology at Luther College!!!  Tex, you are a wonderful writer, in addition to having done some incredible research that you published and shared some of in this story.  How incredible!!!  And thanks to Tex Sordahl for inspiring so many of his students!  All of his students who gathered the data for the research of that Decorah Turkey Vulture massive roost (up to 300 birds!!!) went on to complete advanced degrees in avian ecology!  Wow!  ... also impressive!!!

Thanks again T40 and oldguy!!!
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« Reply #22 on: January 05, 2016, 03:40:42 AM »
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« Reply #27 on: January 14, 2016, 11:45:31 AM »
From  the January 2016  issue of National Geographic magazine
this is an excellent article w/ some great photos and anatomical pictures, body size comparisons w/ other raptors and humans.

"Vultures: More vital than vile"

  http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/vultures-text
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« Reply #28 on: January 15, 2016, 05:54:35 AM »
Africa?s vultures being decimated by poison - Between 2012 and 2014, 155 elephants and 2,044 vultures were killed in 11 poaching-related incidents in seven African countries.

http://www.citizen.co.za/943350/africas-vultures-being-decimated-by-poison/

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« Reply #29 on: January 21, 2016, 12:59:41 AM »
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