Can anybody help identify this raptor?

[rumbleBee_STi]

Sorry the video isn’t longer or better, I thought it might come back so I could get better footage of it. From what I can tell, there aren’t any markings of any colors, but it does have a bright yellow beak.

 

[Sasha-chickens]

that looks like a buzzard or a hawk.

 

[rumbleBee_STi]

that looks like a buzzard or a hawk.

That’s what I thought, vulture or buzzard. It’s very large. I know we have red tail hawks but this is a lot bigger than the red tails.

 

[Sunshine_Chick]

You can usually tell a vulture by the white of their wings & the finger like tips of the wings as well. Google vulture wings & you'll see. I see them daily & they've never bothered my chickens.

 

[svh]

Sure looks like a turkey buzzard to me. We have hundreds here for most of the year. Never bothered the chooks though.

 

[ardeidae]

Vultures glide with their wings in a V. Hawks and eagles will keep their wings level with their body.

 

[Baldwin]

Turkey vultures will tilt back and forth when they draft, like in the video. Where are you located?

 

[Blkat]

I second (or is it third?) the opinion that's a vulture, which will only eat dead, nasty-smelling things. Turkey vulture undersides have a distinct two-tone pattern.

 

[rumbleBee_STi]

You can usually tell a vulture by the white of their wings & the finger like tips of the wings as well. Google vulture wings & you'll see. I see them daily & they've never bothered my chickens.

Huh. Good to know!

 

[rumbleBee_STi]

Turkey vultures will tilt back and forth when they draft, like in the video. Where are you located?

We live in WNC. (Western North Carolina)