Send them to the border.
The vultures are drawn to the cities by newspapers.
I can see why a health center would not want buzzards roosting on it.
“Typical” black buzzards...
The old gag line on the cartoon with two buzzards sitting in a dead tree, “Patience Hell!!! Let’s kill something”, may be true.:D
True story from Arlington, TX.
I got a contract working for a company that, to be frank, was in its death throes. They seemed to think having me come in and add a financial aspect to their marketing presentations would overcome the fact their service really didn’t make financial sense for their prospective customers.
Shortly after I started, when they started getting sued by so many vendors I couldn’t even keep all the suits straight, a bunch of vultures started to hang out on a balcony attached to their offices.
It wasn’t long after that that I started requiring payment weekly for the next week, and cashed the check at lunch just to be sure it cleared.
Understandable, when one considers that their defense strategy includes barfing on their attackers...
"Ranchers all around Texas increasingly are telling wildlife authorities that black vultures in particular...are responsible for killing young cows, sheep and goats."
Could have come from any local paper south of Austin - oh, about sixty years ago.
PS: I'm pretty sure that both 'south of Austin' and 'sixty years' understate historic fact (just as 'killing sheep' overstates it) but I can only speak to experience.
Great timing for this story, about a week ago there were 5 of them on my burn pile in my back field where I threw a dead coyote a couple of months past.
My kids were fascinated watching them jump around the pile tearing at the carcass, and I could tell my son was just itching to mess with them somehow.
I told him to go get his Red Ryder BB gun (he’s nine) and I would pay him $10 if he brought me one he shot. His eyes lit up and I never saw him run so fast to get his shoes on, or look so disappointed when they scattered before he could get close enough to even see them clearly.
Good article.I’ve never seen a buzzard/vulture go after a live animal,but i would not be surprised if it’s true-especially a small animal(ex cat,small dog).They are very large-with formidable claws.Every winter(in my area-urban-a couple miles outside downtown Tampa)almost overnight my area goes from a handfull of buzzards-to hundreds.Statewide-i assume thousands.Just like their(northern)human counter parts-it must be the warm weather:)Anyways-i’ve always wondered what they(vultures-not humans)eat to survive while on “vacation” from wherever?Only so much road kill out there.
“I strongly suspect there’s a lot more food for them, and it’s moving north too.”
A few illegals consumed by buzzards down here.
I've googled and can't seem to find anything that says vultures are federally protected. They aren't in Texas. If someone finds it, let me know. As long as they go after roadkill I don't have a problem. However, any rancher who's livestock is being picked off should shoot, shovel, and shut up. There's a prick here who shoots coyotes and hangs them at his front gate in view of everyone driving down the road. Personally, I suspect he's trying to compensate for his short comings. http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/wild/species/endang/animals/birds/#raptors
Sounds more like an excuse to kill them. They are nature's clean-up crew. They have their place in the scheme of things
They’re awesome animals. The first time I saw them with a roadkill deer I was like a kid on his first visit to the zoo.
I did an article search for Texas, because I was posting on the latest developments after the raid, and when I saw that headline, I thought it was another article about the polygamy cult.