60+ year old thread.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_vulture

I guess sometimes, but quite rarely

 

Black vultures do occasionally hunt. They mostly scavenge but do also hunt.

 

Sure, they scavenge just like all vultures. But they like to target weak animals and are particularly fond of animals in labor. They'll kill a calf before it's completely born, and kill the cow by pecking into the birth canal. And they gang up. Thirty birds will swarm a cow in labor, or a calf that's too young and unstable to run effectively. They'll even wear down an adult cow. The same thing with deer or other wildlife. They are also "protected" and their numbers and their range are growing.

 

Thanks I’m largely ignorant as we only have turkey vultures here and about a million predator birds

 

Oh... and when the black vultures move in, the turkey vultures move out. I'm not sure if the black vultures scare the TVs off, or they kill them.

 

We have turkey buzzards which are road kill scavengers. Ugly as hell and their shit is a bitch to get off a windshield . They are also dumb as a bag of rocks...saw one in a parking lot pecking at a car tires trying to get the road kill the car must have ran over. They didn't get any

 

The wife puts up these nasty fly catch bags. Actually they work really well. Any you want them well away from any habitable areas as they smell of death. Anyway every once in awhile a wake of turkey vultures will walk around the post kind of idiotically trying to figure out where the dead carcasses are!