{"id":5833,"date":"2025-05-09T22:34:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T02:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/?p=5833"},"modified":"2025-05-16T23:02:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T03:02:53","slug":"the-threat-of-black-vultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/the-threat-of-black-vultures\/","title":{"rendered":"The threat of Black Vultures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Vultures aren&#8217;t winning any beauty contests in the animal kingdom, but their look is actually essential to their ecosystem role. These not-so-beautiful birds do a great service to the environment by eating dead animals almost exclusively, and a head free of feathers means there&#8217;s nothing for those bits of flesh to get stuck in.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reconnectwithnature.org\/news-events\/the-buzz\/what-difference-turkey-vulture-vs-black-vulture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/what-differnce-black-vulture-turkey-vulture-shutterstock-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/what-differnce-black-vulture-turkey-vulture-shutterstock-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/what-differnce-black-vulture-turkey-vulture-shutterstock-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/what-differnce-black-vulture-turkey-vulture-shutterstock-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/what-differnce-black-vulture-turkey-vulture-shutterstock-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/what-differnce-black-vulture-turkey-vulture-shutterstock.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reconnectwithnature.org\/news-events\/the-buzz\/what-difference-turkey-vulture-vs-black-vulture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">READ MORE<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vultures aren&#8217;t winning any beauty contests in the animal kingdom, but their look is actually essential to their ecosystem role. These not-so-beautiful birds do a great service to the environment by eating dead animals almost exclusively, and a head free of feathers means there&#8217;s nothing for those bits of flesh to get stuck in.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":5832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[147,512],"class_list":["post-5833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-herd-health","tag-calving","tag-vultures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}