A Committee of Vultures

“A GROUP of vultures may be called a ‘cast,’ ‘committee,’ ‘meal,’ ‘vortex,’ ‘venue’ and even ‘wake.'”

 

My husband and I were surprised to see something we’ve never seen before on the way to shop for groceries today – SEVERAL buzzards or vultures in one area NOT because they had found something to eat on the road. There were some sitting on the ground, others sitting on a fence nearby, still others on a big boulder – all at the entrance to one home that is down the hill from the road.

They were just sitting there. They weren’t flying around, playing in the wind currents, squawking, or anything. It was really strange.

Stranger still, on the way HOME after we had finished shopping, we saw them AGAIN, still sitting there…

As the sentence at the top says, one can call a group of buzzards or vultures by several names. I like ‘committee,’ of vultures, in that I’m reminded of politics….

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  1. Good picture, its amazing all the names for animal collectives, band of blue jays, conclave of cardinals, several for canada geese gaggle, skien, pod of dolphins, tower of giraffes, murder of crows the list goes on, etc.

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