Turkey Vultures

Turkey vultures are not the birds most people set out hoping to photograph, but maybe that is part of what makes them interesting. I keep noticing them on my photo walks, standing quietly along the shore, gathered in old trees, or circling above the landscape with an ease that feels almost prehistoric. This gallery is a collection of turkey vulture photographs that look beyond their reputation and focus instead on their shape, stillness, movement, and strange, necessary beauty.