“This is the fault of the rubbish dump next to the airport, which attracts an absurd number of vultures to the area,” he declared. Indeed, flocks of buzzards scavenging scraps from the dump ...

The most widespread vulture in North America, the turkey vulture is locally called “buzzard” in many areas. A turkey vulture standing on the ground can, at a distance, resemble a wild turkey.

Oberhofer estimates that more than 1,000 black and turkey vultures now take up residence every winter at Buzzard’s Roost, a large cypress dome south of Royal Palm. Smaller groups of vultures roost in ...

To deter the vultures, the city has installed two decoy birds, designed to resemble dead buzzards, in an attempt to scare them away.

It was about two years ago that the story of the dead vulture hanging from the oil derrick in Sesquicentennial Plaza began ...