Find the answers to these questions in the links provided to understand how crows, eagles, and other raptors fit into the carrion-eating world.
Resources
Are crows birds of prey?
- Crows as Predators — Corvid Research
When do occasional-carrion eaters turn to scavenging?
- Crow Curiosities: What do crows eat? — Corvid Research
- Eagles across America — U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
How do vultures compare to eagles in size?
- Body Plans and Shapes: Identifying Birds in Flight — The Raptor Resource Project
Do these scavengers hang out together?
- A Bald Eagle, Raven, and Turkey Vulture — Geotripper
- Bald Eagles Often Join Vultures to Soar and Feed — St. Augustine Record
Didn't Benjamin Franklin have some disparaging things to say about eagles?
- Bald Eagles: Noble Bird or Scavenging Thief? — Illinois Agricultural Extension
- Ben Franklin: Turkey over Eagle — Delaware River Basin Commission