Uploaded June 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
It's recognized by the featherless red head, white bill, large brown-black body and yellow feet.
Turkey vultures have nostrils so large that you can see right through them look in one nostril and you are seeing out the other.
They have also a greatly enlarged olfactory lobe in their brains, which gives them incredible sensitivity to smells.
Despite the fact that they dig around in bloody carcasses for meals and urinate onto their legs to keep cool in the heat of the day. Turkey vultures are very clean birds and will spend two to tree hours a day preening.They also bathe in water when it's possible .
It's recognized by the featherless red head, white bill, large brown-black body and yellow feet.
Turkey vultures have nostrils so large that you can see right through them look in one nostril and you are seeing out the other.
They have also a greatly enlarged olfactory lobe in their brains, which gives them incredible sensitivity to smells.
Despite the fact that they dig around in bloody carcasses for meals and urinate onto their legs to keep cool in the heat of the day. Turkey vultures are very clean birds and will spend two to tree hours a day preening.They also bathe in water when it's possible .
