Is this a hawk or vulture, and is it a threat?

[Wooden_Pony]

The only thing bad about them is if you get to close to their nest they will ummmm puke on you. The smell of their stomach contents is not something you want to experience and it is not something you can wash off.

My poor saddle, horse, and myself were never the same after that afternoon.

 

[Intheswamp]

It's a bald eagle...you can tell by it's head...no hair, er, feathers.

Ed

 

[briana1975]

Turkey buzzards aren't a threat. But you can't tell our turkeys that they send the alarm out everytime one is around and everyone goes running under the coop. They set the alarm out for seagulls too when the boys are out plowing the fields.

 

[Wooden_Pony]

Quote:
Bald Eagle

Turkey Vulture AKA Buzzard

 

[Intheswamp]

Quote:
Bald Eagle

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u119/guenny_guen/BaldEagle.jpg

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u119/guenny_guen/Bald-Eagle.jpg


Turkey Vulture AKA Buzzard

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u119/guenny_guen/TurkeyVulture.jpg

 

[Auntbeast]

Once as a kid, we all laid out in a field when we saw one circling. We didn't move for a long time and watched as more and more gathered. We chickened out when they started getting lower and closer.

We'd also see them in the sky and track down what they were after.


Post otherwise known as: What Country Kids Do For Fun

 

[Punk-Rock_Chicken]

Vulture

 

[Punk-Rock_Chicken]

Quote:
Dont EVER hit one with a BB gun, they'll do the same thing. And they have good aim too!!... Dumb kid stunt!

I never did that again! THE SMELL!!

Mom hosed me off in the yard.

 

[cgmccary]

Turkey Vultures are good to have around to eat the carrion and I have noticed no hawks when they are around (as well as the crows). In Asia, they had a recent population crash of their vultures due to a pesticide poisoning them. This has caused a big problem with carrion build up and served a valuable lesson about the environmental worthiness of these birds.

 

[wanda047]

Buzzards are protected in Arkansas. Not sure about other states.
They're good for keeping the road kill under control.