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Vultures picking rubber from cars
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| April 6, 2010
Posted on 04/06/2010 11:19:47 AM PDT by JoeProBono
MIAMI, - Officials and workers at Florida's Everglades National Park said vultures have been ripping rubber parts from vehicles parked in the area.
Linda Hyde, who works at the Anhinga Trail gift shop in the park, said the vultures have been picking windshield wipers, door seals, sunroof seals and other parts made from rubber and vinyl from vehicles at the park, The Miami Herald reported Tuesday.
She said the park's attempts at keeping the vultures away from the cars, including effigies and hanging the carcasses of dead vultures, have not dissuaded the birds from pecking on cars.
Dave Hallac, chief of biological resources for Everglades National Park, said officials are planning to bring in experts from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Wildlife Research Center in Gainesville, Fla.
"This puts us in kind of a tough situation. These birds are native and they're protected," Hallac said. "We're looking for ways, without injuring the birds, because that's not what we do here, to keep them from damaging vehicles."
Michael Avery, a USDA Wildlife Services biologist, said the vultures do not seem to be ingesting very much of the rubber.
"It's like they are trying stuff," he said. "It may be more prevalent in younger birds as they are learning to grasp things."
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: florida; jpb; vultures
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To: JoeProBono
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posted on
04/06/2010 11:20:24 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: JoeProBono
Vultures? Or Prawns?
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posted on
04/06/2010 11:22:20 AM PDT
by
SonOfDarkSkies
(Obama: "Lawless...with all power, signs and lying wonders")
To: JoeProBono
Vultures are the cleanest birds. After they poke their heads into carcasses and eat their fill, they go off and wash their heads. They have no feathers for that reason.
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posted on
04/06/2010 11:23:53 AM PDT
by
HighlyOpinionated
(SPEAK UP REPUBLICANS, WE CAN'T HEAR YOU YET! IMPEACH OBAMA!)
To: HighlyOpinionated
CORRECTION, no feathers ON THEIR HEADS.
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posted on
04/06/2010 11:24:28 AM PDT
by
HighlyOpinionated
(SPEAK UP REPUBLICANS, WE CAN'T HEAR YOU YET! IMPEACH OBAMA!)
To: b4its2late
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posted on
04/06/2010 11:25:06 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Please no more pics of Helen Thomas....
Oh wait!
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posted on
04/06/2010 11:27:05 AM PDT
by
mgstarr
("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
To: JoeProBono
I thought this was another socialist/marxist cash for clunkers program after reading the title.
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posted on
04/06/2010 11:27:15 AM PDT
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
To: JoeProBono
Especially vulnerable are the Ford Talon, the Pontiac Phoenix, and the Hummer.
Oh, I almost forgot. The Falcon, too.
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posted on
04/06/2010 11:27:23 AM PDT
by
green pastures
(Cynicism-- it's not just for breakfast anymore...)
To: HighlyOpinionated
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posted on
04/06/2010 11:28:15 AM PDT
by
green pastures
(Cynicism-- it's not just for breakfast anymore...)
To: JoeProBono
Hanging effigies?
Isn't that a racist hate crime???
Just sayin'............
To: JoeProBono
what are they constructing, mewonders? hmmm?
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posted on
04/06/2010 11:31:48 AM PDT
by
SpinnerWebb
(mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves)
To: JoeProBono
Poor vultures—driven to despair by the recession.
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posted on
04/06/2010 11:31:57 AM PDT
by
Palladin
(Regroup, Resist, Reload, Repeat!)
To: JoeProBono
Those of us who haven't a politically correct bone in our bodies don't have such issues. This is exactly what BB guns were made for!
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posted on
04/06/2010 11:32:29 AM PDT
by
MarineBrat
(Better dead than red!)
To: mgstarr
Thanks for the reminder!.....
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Uncanny resemblance isn’t it??
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posted on
04/06/2010 11:36:20 AM PDT
by
mgstarr
("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
To: JoeProBono
It's a globbal warming tactic. The Condors are limiting their population. Since Abortion isn't an option, (they don't have health insurance), they are making condoms with the rubber they're harvesting.
I will apply for a stimulus grant for my new agency
Agency
Condors
On
Restive
Nests
Hopefully I can use that for a trip to ...Oops.
Well maybe one of Tiger's Chicks would go for (with) me.
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posted on
04/06/2010 11:37:08 AM PDT
by
Young Werther
("Quae cum ita sunt" Since these things are so!)
To: JoeProBono
To: JoeProBono
They look kinda cool, but I wouldn’t want them pecking at my tires.... and especially at my body. LOL
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posted on
04/06/2010 12:05:52 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: JoeProBono
What do they do in New Zealand. They have big parrots down there on the south island that do the same thing.
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