Vulture or Eagle?

one website I went too said that turkey Vultures have white feet because they squirt fecies on theirs legs to cool them Eewwwwww!
Turkey Vulture

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Bald Eagle

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Chart

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Black Vulture

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Black Eagle
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This news peice made me wonder .....why???

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/bizarre/6947668.html
 
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Well thank you for thoroughly confusing me now.. LOL

It soooo looked like the under-wing shot of that Bald Eagle... I could only see it from underneath.
But then, it had no white or grey on it to speak of.
It was not all short winged and big bodied like the other vulture pics.. in fact, it's body was so small in comparison to it's wings that I can't draw up a mental picture of that.. only the wings.
The turkey vulture is similar enough in appearance to the Bald Eagle, apart from the white, that it could have been one of those... but isen't the secondary color depicted in the chart supposed to be grey? There was no grey... but then there was no white either. It did more resemble the Bald Eagle in wing shape, but then again, the Turkey vulture looks fairly similar. The wings were very long and somewhat skinny with a small body. Color was consistently dark brown. I thought it held its wings very straight. It wasn't beating it's wings much.. mostly soaring.. though it did rock from side to side a time or two... but I don't know if that counts as occilating as it could have been following updraft pockets. The wing tips really remind me of that Bald Eagle pic, but then it looks nothing like the Black Eagle with it's coloration.
I would, at this point, just go with a Turkey Vulture... but what about that screeching cry I was hearing? Do they make that sound too?
 

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