Few animals have a worse reputation than the vulture. But is it deserved With Vulture Katie Fallon offers an irresistible argument to the contrary tracing a year in the life of a typical North American turkey vulture. Turkey vultures also known as buzzards are the most widely distributed and abundant scavenging birds of prey on the planet found from central Canada to the southern tip of Argentina and nearly everywhere in between. Deftly drawing on the most uptodate scientific papers and articl