Outdoor Ontario
Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: pong on July 28, 2016, 11:27:12 PM
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Hello there,
I am from Thailand visiting Ontario. I visited Niagara Falls yesterday. Around noon, I spotted a bird of prey over Niagara Falls. I think it looks like an eagle to me. Every bird I have found here is new.
At this stage, I can only guess it is Golden Eagle.
Photo was cropped.
I would appreciate your help identifying this bird of prey. Thank you.
(https://c3.staticflickr.com/9/8806/28514580962_750a55e3b1_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KrJFuf)IMG_9629_cr (https://flic.kr/p/KrJFuf) by ƤōƝƓ (https://www.flickr.com/photos/12071189@N04/), on Flickr
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Welcome to Ontario.
It's a Turkey Vulture.
/Thomas
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Welcome to Ontario.
It's a Turkey Vulture.
/Thomas
O_o" Thank you soo much, Thomas!! I had never seen a vulture in my life! I am excited. Coz vultures have gone extinct from my country for decades.
pong
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Again I think I saw the same vultures again. This time over Central Square, York U.
I am amazed you Ontarians have vultures in the city!!
(https://c6.staticflickr.com/9/8851/28650435085_db7e9ae1a9_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KDJYbH)IMG_9730_cr (https://flic.kr/p/KDJYbH) by ƤōƝƓ (https://www.flickr.com/photos/12071189@N04/), on Flickr
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Turkey Vultures are one of the most common birds from Canada all the way down to Southern Argentina! I wonder why vultures do so much worse in Asia.
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Turkey Vultures are one of the most common birds from Canada all the way down to Southern Argentina! I wonder why vultures do so much worse in Asia.
Growing up in India I used to see a lot of vultures. People used to discard their dead domestic animals (mostly dead cows) at the outskirt of villages in wide open farm lands and soon a group of vultures would land and consume the dead animal to the bone in matter of hours. Last time I visited India in 2014 I saw none. With the introduction of highways and paved roads one would think that there would be more as a result of more road kills. Though this is how Turkey Vultures spread in Canada, for Vultures in India it was a different story. Apparently the introduction of a new drug in 1990 for domestic animals proved fatal to the vultures. Here's a link to the findings. Hope actions are taken to restore their population before they become totally extinct.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1618889/ (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1618889/)
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A few years back, sighted 90 Turkey Vultures circling above Kelso Lake in Milton - since then, have only seen a few.
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Turkey Vultures are one of the most common birds from Canada all the way down to Southern Argentina! I wonder why vultures do so much worse in Asia.
Vultures here were considered creatures eating rotten flesh. They didn't look as beautiful as the Turkey Vulture. It was a total prejudice.