My friend on facebook showed this to me, and on another photo, I immediately went to Turkey Vulture. However, looking at this photo, what's up with all the white?
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Posted 19 June 2012 - 01:39 PM
My friend on facebook showed this to me, and on another photo, I immediately went to Turkey Vulture. However, looking at this photo, what's up with all the white?
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Posted 19 June 2012 - 06:43 PM
Not a TV, or any other vulture for that matter, this is a Swinhoe's Pheasant.
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Posted 19 June 2012 - 06:45 PM
This is definitely not a Turkey Vulture. A Turkey Vulture doesn't have red legs, and has a much shorter neck and tail. I'm not good with foreign/exotic/domestic birds, but I would guess that it is one of those three.
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Posted 19 June 2012 - 06:46 PM
Yeah...what fisherman said.This is definitely not a Turkey Vulture. A Turkey Vulture doesn't have red legs, and has a much shorter neck and tail. I'm not good with foreign/exotic/domestic birds, but I would guess that it is one of those three.
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Posted 19 June 2012 - 06:53 PM
This is definitely not a Turkey Vulture. A Turkey Vulture doesn't have red legs, and has a much shorter neck and tail.
They actually do have pink/red legs, but they're usually so covered in urates from urohydrosis that they look white.
But yeah, I agree with Swinhoe's Pheasant. Cool bird!
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Posted 19 June 2012 - 07:19 PM
"Urohydrosis" Now there is a word that doesn't come up very often but I do like it. It's a much more efficient way of describing what vultures do which normally would take a short paragraph and it's so much more polite, too.They actually do have pink/red legs, but they're usually so covered in urates from urohydrosis that they look white.
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