RAPTORS RULE
CARNIVORES WOW PARK CROWD
Posted: March 4, 2010 at 3:33 a.m.
STAFF PHOTO FLIP PUTTHOFF Turkey vulture Igor spreads wings for wildlife rehabilitator Lynn Sciumbato and the crowd at Hobbs State Park-Wildlife Management Area. When vultures soar, they’re smelling for food, Sciumbato told the crowd at the park visitor center during her program. “That makes sense because their food stinks,” she said.
The turkey vulture perched on Lynn Sciumbato’s wrist hammed it up for the crowd, peering at a captive audience with beady black eyes and spreading its wings like a dark angel.
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Outdoor, Pages 11 on 03/04/2010
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Lynn, her message, and her raptors are wonderful. This article really "captures" them and the event. Thank you. This was my poem journal-entry that day:
“CATHARTES AURA”
When is a buzzard
not a buzzard?
When it never was!
(That’s the buzz. )
Europeans decry our
lack of orni-culture.
Hawk, they claim, is buzzard.
(Our buzzard is their vulture.)
Posted by: everydaypoet
March 4, 2010 at 7:49 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
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