I was really struck by the unusual poses of these Black Vultures (Coragyps atratus) that I encountered while walking along the canal path in Augusta, GA. The only other time that I saw Black Vultures in a tree, they were roosting and looked large and menacing.
These two vultures look like they have adopted a hawk’s approach to hunting by perching on a tree and waiting, rather than by circling endlessly in the skies as other vultures do.
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Maybe they’re pairing off and have a nesting location in mind.
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The first time I came upon vultures roosting in a tree I was surprised with their size, really quite amazing. Great photo.
Thanks, Charlie. This shot was taken across a canal, so it was hard for me to get a real sense of their size. That was not the case the time when I was almost directly below some roosting vultures, which looked really big.