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It is officially autumn here when migrating flocks of turkey vultures sail through the Tehachapi Valley, sometimes forming cylindrical columns with hundreds of birds in a swirling, mesmerizing circle dance as they ascend a spiral staircase of rising warm air. When the thermal reaches a higher altitude and cools off so that it no longer provides much lift, the kettle of circling turkey vultures unspools and each bird begins flying in a straight line as it reaches the top of the thermal. The birds generally fly directly towards the southeast in the direction of Oak Creek Pass. This familiar sight has been repeated many times over the past two weeks as flocks of turkey vultures have made their way along the ancient flight routes that take them from the Central Valley and Sierra Nevada foothills over the mountains into the Mojave Desert and points south. As years of vulture counts both in Kern Valley and the Tehachapi area have established, over 60,000 migrating turkey vultures...
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