The time of year buzzards mate is between March through May.
The male buzzard attracts a female buzzard by flying in circles and diving.
Buzzards are monogamous and the female buzzard lays 2 to 4 eggs which hatch in 33 to 38 days.
Buzzards do eat crows as buzzards most often target crow fledglings and also hunt the crow in both the air and on the ground.
A buzzard will eat a dead dog or other dead animal including dead cats as long as the dead dog or other dead animals body has started to decompose.
Buzzards will eat anything they can find that is dead and partially rotted out.
Buzzards are a type of hawk and more specifically a buteo hawk that are in the family of Accipitriade.
Buzzards do raid nests of other birds for food.
Buzzards will hunt and eat rodents, reptiles, and other birds and will eat carrion as well.
Common buzzards and vultures have different types of feet.
The buzzards have strong talons made for grabbing prey and carrying it.
During the winter the buzzards will go to and migrate short distances southward, to North Carolina through Louisiana.
Buzzards do most often stay in the same area for long periods of time.
Although sometimes buzzards may leave the area and seek warmer climates and then return later to the same area.
The difference between vultures and buzzards is that vultures have bald heads while buzzards don't have bald heads.
Vultures also rarely kill prey as their beaks are fairly weak and buzzards have a stronger beak as they sometimes kill their prey.
Buzzards as well as Vultures do have very good eyesight and can spot a carcass as small as 3 feet around 4 miles away on the open plains.
Buzzards are very intelligent and social birds.
Despite their unpeacock-like appearance, buzzards and vultures are intelligent birds whose senses of sight and smell are among the sharpest of any creatures.
Buzzards could be called Mother Nature's vacuum cleaner, and for good reason: they can eat things that would kill most people.
When buzzards hang around it usually means there are some animals either dead or alive that the buzzards want to prey on and eat.
According to superstition buzzards hanging around are also supposed to mean a death in the family although that is just superstition.
Buzzards raise their body temperature in the morning by stretching their wings and basking in the sunlight.
If you see buzzards on your roof in this posture, they've simply decided that your roof is a warm place to rest.
The presence of vultures on your roof also means there's probably a food source nearby.
The average lifespan of a buzzard is between 10 years to 20 years.
Although there have been some buzzard that have lived for around 30 to 45 years.
Buzzards do call for each other and when looking for a mate the buzzards will also call for a mate.
A buzzard will vocalize year-round and the buzzards call is sharper when used in aggression and more explosive when used in alarm.
When buzzards are answering one another, pairs will often use a “mah” sound, and additional croaks and chuckles have also been recorded.
Buzzards tend to flock together as they are social animals and also they flock together to sleep.
Buzzards do sometimes hang out in groups.
Unlike many raptors, vultures are relatively social and often feed, fly, or roost in large flocks.
A group of vultures is called a committee, venue, or volt.
In flight, a flock of vultures is a kettle, and when the birds are feeding together at a carcass, the group is called a wake.
Buzzards have the ability to smell things up to a mile away.
Scavengers, buzzards wheel in graceful circles as they ride wind currents searching for food.
Their favorite food is fresh carrion, but they'll eat an older carcass if food is scarce and it hasn't putrefied.
The birds' keen sense of smell enables them to pick up airborne chemicals that signal an animal has died.
A flock of buzzards which are also called vultures is called a wake or a kettle.
A gathering of vultures is called a “wake”, “kettle”, “committee” or, just generally, a “flock”.
An important note when naming groups of things is that it's often done more for amusement than an actual purpose.
When it comes to birds as a whole, flock is the general term.
When a vulture visits you it can sometimes mean death in the family and can also mean harmony, cleansing and purity as well.
When a vulture crosses your path, remember to stay adaptable and resourceful, even if the situation appears bleak!
You can overcome it with a little ingenuity.
Vultures do often eat live animals when they are hungry enough although most often vultures will look for and feed on dead animals.
Still some vultures will eat chickens and other live animals that they come across.
Vultures do sometimes come out at night but most often vultures are active during the day and roost at night.
Vultures seen in the evening hours have probably arrived in the area that day and are preparing to roost for the night.
Groups of vultures spiraling upward to gain altitude are called "kettles"
Turkey Buzzards and Vultures are the same thing.
In the United States, when someone refers to a buzzard, it means a turkey vulture, a member of the New World vultures.
Elsewhere in the world, a buzzard is in the same family as Old World vultures – Accipitridae – in the Buteo genus.
In North America, the Buteo genus refers to hawks or buzzard hawks.
The difference between a condor and a vulture is that the condor is a larger type of vulture.
Condors are just a specification of two specific types of New World vultures, the Andean and California condor.
Vultures do poop although vultures don't poop out an anus like humans and dogs do.
In birds its called a cloaca, or vent.
Its not correct to call it a anus or butt, in birds its serves more then one purpose.
During the hot weather, turkey vultures will defecate on their feet to cool them off.
Since a vulture's digestive juices kill bacteria--which is why vultures don't get sick from eating rotten meat--defecating on their legs might even work as an antiseptic wash.
Vultures lay between 1 to 3 eggs at a time.
A female black vulture lays one to three eggs, but two is the average and more common clutch size.
A breeding pair may inspect a nest site for weeks, ensuring it is free from predators and disturbances before the female lays an egg.
Vultures sleep in places such as caves, hollow trees, abandoned buildings, brush piles, thickets, and stumps.
Turkey Vultures do not build nests, but rather lay their eggs in dark recesses in ledges, caves, crevices, and hollow logs, as well as on the ground.
Turkey Vultures also nest in the abandoned stick nests of birds, in mammal burrows, and in abandoned buildings.
Vultures sit on houses as a way to look for dead animals, meats etc that they want to eat.
Usually when a vulture is sitting on a house it means that something dead is nearby or about to die such as an animal.
Some ways to get rid of black vultures are to use loud noises, air horns, motion activated water sprinklers, spraying the black vulture with a garden hose etc.
If you have ever wondered, “why are vultures hanging around my house?” check your surroundings for any dead animal carcasses.
Turkey vultures are carrion eaters.
They look for freshly killed animals–usually, leftovers from another predator–and have a feast.
When you see a black vulture it means a sign of change, omen and even death.
The vulture symbolism is linked to death, rebirth, equalizing, perception, trust, seriousness, resourcefulness, intelligence, cleanliness, and protection.
In western cultures, black is usually associated with death.
But remember, in a spiritual sense, death represents transformation.
It's also believed that black is a color that can absorb negative energies.
Seeing a black vulture means and is a sign of an omen and change.