[NatureNS] Turkey Vultures

From: David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.com>
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Hi All,                            Mar 30, 2013
    I takes a while for animals to respond to new opportunity. Traffic and 
roadkill have increased many-fold over the last 50 years. Is roadkill a 
significant portion of their diet ?
Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville
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From: "John and Nhung" <nhungjohn@eastlink.ca>
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Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2013 12:46 PM
Subject: RE: [NatureNS] Turkey Vultures


> Interesting hypothesis.
>
> "Ours" remained relatively uncommon till 2000 or so.  When I came home on
> leave for a month in the summer in the '90's, a sighting was still
> noteworthy, but sightings were becoming gradually more frequent.  By the
> winter of 2003-04, my first real winter home, they were pretty regular at
> certain favorite locations.
>
> Winters have been warming gradually over the past couple or three decades.
> I'm not sure if the more rapid increase a decade-odd ago had anything to 
> do
> with  winter temperatures or if it was just part of the exponential phase 
> of
> a sigmoid curve.  Missed opportunity for an interesting graduate thesis, 
> eh?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca]
> On Behalf Of Fred Schueler
> Sent: March-30-13 11:57 AM
> To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
> Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Turkey Vultures
>
> Quoting nancy dowd <nancypdowd@gmail.com>:
>
>> In Bernd Heinrich's newer book (Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of
>> Death) the author suggests Turkey Vultures have steadily expanded
>> their range northwards because carcasses are no longer frozen
>> completely solid during the milder winters in New England allowing a
>> large population to remain year round.
>
> * that may work for New England, but it seems to me that there's also very
> increased seasonal and breeding migration into Ontario -
> http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.ca/2012/04/jills-barn-5-x-7-in.html  
> -
> but this would have to be measured north of Bernd's "frozen carcass"
> isotherm.
>
> fred.
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