Carrion Birds of North Carolina

Find the answers to these questions in the links provided to understand how crows, eagles and other raptors fit into the carrion-eating gang.

Are crows birds of prey?

• Crows as Predators

When are these occasional-carrion eaters most likely to turn to scanvenging instead of their usual means of food acquisition?

• Crow Curiosities: What do crows eat?
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Eagles across America

How do vultures compare to eagles in size?

• The National Raptor Resource Project

Do these scavengers hang out together?

• Geotripper: a geology blog
• St. Augustine Record

Didn't Benjamin Franklin have some pretty disparaging things to say about eagles?

• Bald Eagles: Noble Bird of Scavenging Thief?
• Ben Franklin: Turkey over Eagle