Re: [EmergingEthnoNetwork] Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus). “They eat anything ..."

Dear Santiago,

Thanks for the note. 

Please feel free to join the Ethnoornithology Research & Study Group and pass on your thoughts there - there are plenty of people working on the relationships between birds & people in your part of the world and the ERSG group may be useful for connections and information.

Good luck with your book project and send me a note if I or anyone else - can be of assistance.

We'd love to hear your stories - and of course those that you work with!

Cheers and best,

Bob Gosford

ERSG Moderator,

Darwin, Australia

On 22 January 2013 04:20, Santiago Zuluaga <raptorscolombia@yahoo.com> wrote:

 

Hi Robert

I work in the Raptor Rehabilitation Center San Isidro (Colombia - South American) and we have many experiences, myths and histories how for write a Book. In the last years I have been collecting these histories from conversations with older people, indigenous and farmers, mainly in Colombia but also I have some of Chile.

Cordial greeting

Santiago Zuluaga Castañeda, BSc.
Universidad de Caldas - Colombia.

Raptor Rehabilitation Center San Isidro.

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From: Robert Gosford bgosford@gmail.com>
To: EmergingEthnoNetwork@yahoogroups.ca
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 5:58 AM
Subject: [EmergingEthnoNetwork] Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus). "They eat anything ..."

One of the great pleasures of driving around the American south-west is the variety of raptors – birds of prey – that present themselves as you cruise the big-sky country. Perched on trees and power-poles, soaring high on thermals or just hanging around looking for the dead or dying. They are out there, you've just got to use that inquisitive and following eye to find them.
I had a look at one of the most common American raptors, the Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura), back in 2009 here. This week's bird is the Turkey Vulture's less common cousin, the Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) and I caught up with this 40 year-old bird – and his 30 year-old female companion – in the back-yard aviary of my friend and respected ethnoornithologist Amadeo Rea from the University of San Diego at his house there a few weeks ago.
You can learn more about Amadeo's magisterial ethnobiological work with the Piman peoples at the University of Arizona Press page here.
Amadeo has looked after these birds since they were fledglings as part of his long-term research into the relationships between human and birds in the American south and south-west.
Black Vultures rely on sight than smell when searching for food and will often follow a Turkey Vulture towards carrion, where they can gather in large flocks – often of several hundred birds – around a carcass. Black Vultures have stronger beaks than their cousins and can tear up carcasses more easily and will take a wider variety of food, including vegetable and fruits like over-ripe coconuts, pumpkins and oil-palm nuts.
You can read the rest of this piece at The Northern Myth and find out more about ethno-ornithology at The Ethnoornithology Research & Study Group .
I'd love to hear your thoughts or your own experiences with Vultures - of any species ...
 

 

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