Buzzard Emergency!

[SulkyBantam]

Please for the love of everything do not 'shoot the buzzard' as everyone is instructing. They do not kill living things and they never have. Black vultures are federally protected and killing one will land you in jail. Call your local wildlife rehab. They can send someone to look for him and set up something to catch him if they think it's worth the time. It's a old wives tale that they kill farm animals because people often see them go after something when it's already dying or has just died.

I agree. Buzzards can't and won't, kill a chicken.

 

[Weeg]

Please for the love of everything do not 'shoot the buzzard' as everyone is instructing. They do not kill living things and they never have. Black vultures are federally protected and killing one will land you in jail. Call your local wildlife rehab. They can send someone to look for him and set up something to catch him if they think it's worth the time. It's a old wives tale that they kill farm animals because people often see them go after something when it's already dying or has just died.

100% agreed!

 

[Weeg]

I agree. Buzzards can't and won't, kill a chicken.

Especially an injured one, I can't see it catching a full grown chicken, matter of fact killing it.

 

[SulkyBantam]

I agree. Buzzards can't and won't, kill a chicken.

So they don't deserve to be killed, right?

 

[SulkyBantam]

Especially an injured one, I can't see it catching a full grown chicken, matter of fact killing it.

A buzzard wouldn't kill a baby bantam. Indeed.

 

[Cattle dog Mom]

Please for the love of everything do not 'shoot the buzzard' as everyone is instructing. They do not kill living things and they never have. Black vultures are federally protected and killing one will land you in jail. Call your local wildlife rehab. They can send someone to look for him and set up something to catch him if they think it's worth the time. It's a old wives tale that they kill farm animals because people often see them go after something when it's already dying or has just died.

Black vultures DO kill living things! Ask any rancher in the SE. Or the Audubon society.

 

[SulkyBantam]

Black vultures DO kill living things! Ask any rancher in the SE. Or the Audubon society.

Which raptor are we talking about here?

 

[Cattle dog Mom]

Which raptor are we talking about here?

I have said more than once. Black vultures. (That is the actual name, not just a description.) Black vulture Audubon Society

 

[RosemaryDuck]

I have said more than once. Black vultures. (That is the actual name, not just a description.) Black vulture Audubon Society

 

[Cattle dog Mom]

@RosemaryDuck

Copied and pasted from the link I posted above. (The Audubon Society website.) " DIET: Mostly carrion. Feeds on carcasses of dead animals of all sizes. At times also eats eggs of other birds, turtles, lizards. May kill and eat young of some birds, sea turtles; sometimes eats newborn young of larger mammals. Also eats some plant material, such as coconuts and rotting vegetables. Will scavenge scraps of refuse from garbage dumps."