The pungent perpetrator we call a buzzard is actually a turkey vulture.
The turkey vulture's presence could create a stench potent enough to raise the dead. How cruel for a creature already hindered with looks only a mother could love!
The turkey vulture smells like rot partly because it eats, well, rot. The turkey vulture is a scavenger, who rather than kill prey, eats nature’s left-overs. Its stomach is strong enough to easily digest the diseased and spoiled carcasses it consumes, disposing of nature’s unwanted rot and helping to keep disease in check in our environment.
Although the turkey vulture lacks a syrinx (a bird voicebox), it is still, amazingly, a very social bird. They typically roost silently in large communal groups with other vulture species on dead trees or tall polls, using hisses and grunts to communicate only when necessary and breaking away only occasionally to eat.
Some Native American tribes view vultures with reverence. They think of turkey vultures as “peace eagles” because vultures never kill and always recycle. In fact the root of its genus, cathartes, comes from the word catharsis because to be eaten by a vulture after death is believed to cleanse and release one’s soul.
Now where could that buzzard be?!?! You are searching for a preform with log only.
Cache placed with permission from the Berea College Forestry Department