Cool Critters: Turkey Vultures - KQED QUEST
Loading...
Uploader Comments (KQEDondemand)
Top Comments
-
These birds have always amazed me. I recently passed a landfill site and there were atleast 20 perched on top of a billboard.I think it was a lunch break.
2 years ago 6
-
I just signed up to be a volunteer here! I also volunteer at International Bird Rescue Research Center in Fairfield.
2 years ago 3
All Comments (11)
-
Had one of these guys in my neighborhood once. Really freaked out my mother. I named him Conrad.
-
good video! turkey vultures have a important rol cleaning the planet.....birds like vultures, eagles, hawks, have always amazed me.
-
@magickitty0128 That's true about cleaning up carrion, but I assure you, turkey vultures smell terrible. Wild birds are timid, don't like humans, and have a natural defense mechanism of projectile vomiting reflexively whenever they're surprised or in a bad mood. When found injured, they are famously smelly and hard to keep clean in captivity.
Until you've smelled hot rotten roadkill mixed with the strongest digestive juices in the animal kingdom, you don't know the meaning of bad smell.
-
God, she's still a cute little thing, despite the vomiting and the parasites. :D
1 year ago 2
-
@colts8787 Mean
-
Turkey vultures are awesome.
They're actually quite clean. Their digestive systems kill the bacteria and other crap they ingest, and, as the lady on the video said, the sun kills the bad stuff that gets on their feathers.
Don't forget that they clean the dead things up for us! If not for them, the world would be a much messier and stinkier place.
-
These birds just passed possums as the #1 most disgusting animal on the planet.
- 176 videosKQED QUEST - Science, Environment, and Nature
- 2:17
Cool Critters: The Golden Eagle - KQED QUESTby KQEDondemand1,672 views
- 2:17
Cool Critters: Opossums - KQED QUESTby KQEDondemand1,214 views
- 2:19
Cool Critters: Great Horned Owls - KQED QUESTby KQEDondemand8,007 views
- 10:25
Seahorse Sleuth - KQED QUESTby KQEDondemand2,764 views
- 5:00
LAPPUGGLA Great Grey Owl (Strix nebulosa) 1by AROSFILM36,400 views
- 1:30
Turkey Vulturesby TheGardenersResource4,521 views
- 6:33
Black Vulturesby klbak15,616 views
- 4:39
Dawn Manly with a great horned owl at lindsay wildlife museumby lindsaywildlife7,074 views
- 8:09
To Violently Vomit (Disgorge) - Live at Mountains of Death 2011 - Part1by lumbagoproductions13,550 views
- 5:54
Vulture accidentby jianis19128,744 views
- 6:18
TURKEY VULTURESby Feathershadow7,740 views
- 1:56
Meet the worlds biggest flying bird, the Andean Condorby JefftheZooGuy609,729 views
- 0:36
Geesink GPM2 Vultureby ClassicRefuseTrucks22,759 views
- 0:28
A Turkey Vulture And A Black Vultureby SyntheticsX2,407 views
- 2:01
Turkey Vulture Slams Into Helicopter Flying Over Super Bowlby ChristianWheel1,359 views
- 1:03
Late Show: Old Turkey Buzzard - 1/8-07by glamphugger33,413 views
- 1:00
vultures from jungle bookby CJTClol958,504 views
- 2:08
The Cult of the Turkey Vultureby Dialthree2,882 views
- 0:41
Turkey Vulture fighting/mating (?) in Allen Park Mi. Episode 1.by Ziggityzo1,188 views
- 4:53
07-22-08 Young Turkey Vultures--Long Versionby fulluvit1,926 views
Where is the Lindsay Wildlife Museum located?
ThePixieEater 1 year ago
@ThePixieEater It's located in Walnut Creek, CA.
KQEDondemand 1 year ago