The author ends the book by sharing tips and strategies for how the average person can help protect this beneficial species, especially by outlawing lead ammunition. Although vultures perform critically important ecosystem services as nature’s (and people’s) garbagemen by consuming rotting flesh on the landscape, and despite being protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, they are often persecuted because people think they are ugly, because they are associated with death, because they have a strong odor, and because these large birds tend to congregate near people. The book also includes chapters on black vultures, another New World species, and Old World vultures in general. The reader also gains a glimpse into the life of this species by following a “typical” turkey vulture through one year of her life. Painstakingly researched, the author, Katie Fallon, draws upon scientific research and interviews with vulture experts, interwoven with personal anecdotes and vulture mythology, to share what is known about all aspects of turkey vulture life history, including breeding, incubation, raising chicks, migration, food-finding and roosting.
Despite being the world’s most widespread vulture species, occupying almost all of the New World from the southernmost top of Argentina up through southern Canada, there are no books about the turkey vulture.
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