Good article on these protected and necessary scavengers.
 
Gives attempted remedies and fines for killing one (if not the feds)
 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/15/AR2011011503474.html
 
Dorothy Paugh
Bowie
 
> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:12:24 -0500
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> They do sometimes show up as roadkill, when feeding on a carcass too close to the road. When in a feeding frenzy they are often a bit careless...
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> Rick Sussman
> Woodbine,MD
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> Yup - that's exactly what happened. I confirmed it with a co-worker who lives there. But that begs the question - where do you conveniently "find" a dead vulture (or two). 
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> -- Melanie Lynch 
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> >If my memory is correct, Chestertown had an unwanted vulture roost >in the patch of woods on the way into town just after you crossed >the bridge going into town on Rt. 213 North ... right where the gas >stations are. I think I remember that someone "found" a dead >vulture and they strung it up in one of the trees. The vultures >moved on. 
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> >I am certain someone from Chestertown has a better recall of the >facts and can enlighten us and me. 
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> >Jim Wilson 
> >Queenstown 
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> Yup - that's exactly what happened. I confirmed it with a co-worker who lives there. But that begs the question - where do you conveniently "find" a dead vulture (or two). 
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> -- Melanie Lynch 
> Annapolis MD