🐦‍⬛ Zookeepers in Prague are using a hand puppet resembling an adult yellow-headed vulture to raise chicks and ensure they bond with their species, after their parents stopped nesting https://reut.rs/45G6hc5 | Reuters

It’s October and time to witness the great turkey vulture migration--and CALM is in the migration path! This annual event along the Pacific Flyway involves between 25,000 and 35,000 turkey vultures (Cathartes aura) flying in flocks of up to 400 birds. According to the Turkey Vulture Migration Project, this particular species of New World vulture summers in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest, but as the first hint of autumn arrives, the birds congregate and begin their journey southward,