July 12, 2019

Location: St. Augustine, St. Augustine Alligator Park

I am a Hooded Vulture
Rapid population decline is my fate -
Due to habitat loss, hunting and electrocution,
And poison from things that I ate.

(Note: This is a captive, resident bird at the Alligator Farm.)

Sources: Birdlife International Data Zone - Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus

Photo and text © 2018 Dee Fairbanks Simpson