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With the Halloween season fast approaching, nefarious implications have haunted the Turkey Vulture in stories and folklore for centuries, though this species is best known among birders and biologists as a dedicated steward of the environment, and its taste for carrion endears the bird to many as one of nature's premier garbage disposers. Photo by Birding Wire editor, J.R. Absher. Tech notes: Canon 7D w/Canon EF 70-300 mm lens, f16, ISO 1250, @1/640 sec.

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