Scavenger Experts Explain What A Turkey Buzzard Habitat Requires
Oftentimes, scavenger communities differ in consistency due to carcass size and carcass types, as well as by seasonal effects as consequence of differing invertebrate and microbial activity. The raven is known as acting as a scavenger, competing with and often outwitting the dogs and even the hunters. By the time British colonists started towns in America, the skawage tax was no longer collected, and the word scavenger came to be used here in its more general sense of "someone who collects usable. Scavenger, animal that feeds partly or wholly on the bodies of dead animals. Many invertebrates, such as carrion beetles, live almost entirely on decomposing animal matter. A scavenger is an organism that consumes mostly decaying biomass, such as meat or rotting plant matter.
Turkey Buzzard | John James Audubon's Birds of America
