Second post of the day I know. Hopefully that’s allowed. There has been an insane number of buzzards surrounding a building in this town I drive through frequently. Apparently the building used to make Styrofoam ice chests and closed not super long ago(I can’t find anything about it online). The buzzards have been swarming like this every day for almost 2 months now. In the mornings, they are all perched on the roof and in the afternoons, they swarm like this. Other than serial killer, body dump, what else could be going on here that’s keeping them here?
by 323retro
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Good thermals? Migration season.
Thermals allows birds to circle around in the sky while expending very little energy, sometimes not even having to flap their wings at all.
Vultures like to soar, for them soaring is the most effective way to locate food since they mainly use smell. So if they find an area with a good updraft they will typically hang around there since it let’s them soar while expending the least amount of energy
There’s something dead in there.
Perhaps, and this might sound grim, but perhaps there is a body there. Maybe other animals dragged a larger carcass or a large animal became trapped and they can smell the death. Or, I mean, a squatter may have passed. Illegal dumping maybe? Like a fisherman dumping guts( had this problem with seagulls at a marina I worked at, fisherman would dock and toss the guts into the dumpster where they would cook in the summer heat and it was rank.) Only things I can think
An industrial building with a black rubber roof would generate crazy thermal columns all day long. Probably a really convenient place for large numbers of birds to chill out without cramping each others’ space, there’s absolutely no predators that can bother them, and they can circle all day surveying a large area while trying to catch a whiff of roadkill.
People tend to put dismembered body parts into these sorts of ice chests, maybe not styrofoam ones, but you get my drift. 💀
Could be a gas leak: https://www.popsci.com/gas-leaks-are-designed-to-attract-turkey-vultures/
Where is this?
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I filmed a similar amount of black vultures near my place earlier this summer