This Turkey Vulture was with a large group, most flying but a few others hanging out on a fence, in Otero County. The top pic shows an adult Turkey Vulture with a moderate amount of white tubercles on it's face with "black hairlike feathers on lores surrounding the tubercles" as described in
Raptors of Western North America. You can see the tubercles up close by double-clicking on the pic (tho the photo gets blurry it shows the features).
The bottom pic is of the same bird but with it's
nictitating membrane over it's eye.
This Turkey Vulture was with a large group, most flying but a few others hanging out on a fence, in Otero County. The top pic shows an adult Turkey Vulture with a moderate amount of white tubercles on it's face with "black hairlike feathers on lores surrounding the tubercles" as described in Raptors of Western North America. You can see the tubercles up close by double-clicking on the pic (tho the photo gets blurry it shows the features).
The bottom pic is of the same bird but with it's nictitating membrane over it's eye.
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