Staten Island residents concerned about black vultures in neighborhood

[@saulorosco1493]

We're living in a world where vultures experience racism too SMH

[@jimvallen5410]

We're living in a country where a dumbass is watering a powerline

[@The_Quaalude]

🤡

[@voltrondefenderoftheuniver8658]

Who's the first to experience racism? It's definitely not blacks, they are a protected species.

[@barryoconnor721]

Vultures are not a race, Professor Big Brain.

[@commanderbell1965]

Black Birds like Ravens and Crows get a bad rap

[@RetroBerner]

Keep spraying the transformer with the hose.. genius

[@BuzzyStreet]

Um, it rains on Staten Island. In other news, water is wet.

[@Devil3R]

@@BuzzyStreet That's not what he meant but thanks for staying in school.

[@Robconnors7253]

Ha ha

[@lolacookie453]

Leave them alone, they are an essential part of the ecosystem, unlike all the criminals running wild in the area and beyond.

[@grandpacapricorn928]

Vultures don't carrier guns , do they?

[@junowatt5802]

Correct, the vultures are only trying to clean up the filth and stench emanating from the area.

[@zahirmurji]

The Vultures are patient birds. They are waiting for someone to die.

[@ralphkramden1741]

Exactly.

[@MajorChipHazard1]

Or alot of people...

[@jimdoe3288]

1:42 So people are harassing a Federally protected animal? Ty news channel for showing the criminal

[@Hawken707]

It's ok, he's spraying water on powerlines and transformers, Ol Buzzy will have a free meal he keeps that up.. 😂

[@Wykednick]

So what happens when it rains?

[@VILEPAINTS]

Man is watering power lines! Those vultures know what they’re doing 😂

[@kwf1]

I was just going to say the same thing

[@princevinny0073]

😂😂🤣🤣😃😃 hahaha this fool is watering the powerline hahahahaha

[@PandaBear62573]

I started seeing vultures on Staten Island almost 2 years ago. They gather on chimneys to stay warm in the winter. Last winter there were a lot more, like 3 to 4 times more than the previous year. I'm way more scared of the turkeys attacking me than the vultures. The vultures eat roadkill.

[@JohnDoe-gy2rd]

Did you get jumped and robbed by them too??? This is an abomination !!!!!!

[@juliodiaz4493]

They eat the animal they don't eat life animals you don't got to worry about

[@araserra6622]

Why turkeys, do they attack people?

[@juliodiaz4493]

@@araserra6622 no turkey don't attack people

[@juliodiaz4493]

vulture don't do nothing he eats dead animal only

[@quz908]

I'm glad these creatures are federally protected. Even the animal expert says they're harmless.

[@yulkarubindecelis2193]

Me too !!!great

[@apap1586]

Yeah until they start damaging your house.

[@kelpiegirl]

It's BS. They will attack neonate livestock.

[@richardwalker6004]

If I’m not mistaken don’t they only eat dead prey ? There aren’t really hunters ?

[@richardwalker6004]

@@apap1586 I guess is they make a nest and bird droppings. I mean who would like to see them ugly asss birds on your house .

[@lendawgs4167]

It’s got a right to be there too.It’s their world too, and they don’t destroy it like humans.

[@justinm6582]

and they actually help by eating the dead! i was next to vultures that were by a garbage can and they didn’t even acknowledge me. they’re cool and should be allowed to roam the planet like these pos humans !

[@TermlessHGW]

FACTS

[@billywalker9223]

Vultures are important in keeping rotting flesh from spreading disease to living people. They are only awaiting the bodies that will be in the streets when shtf. They're just doing their job.

[@MajorChipHazard1]

Exactly. These animals are getting comfortable and settling in before the big feast starts.

[@nesieb6685]

Exactly

[@johnwattdotca]

It's not a good sign when black vultures start moving in on you.

[@MajorChipHazard1]

They know something is coming. They sit and wait for a feast unlike any other. The harvest will be bountiful.

[@himZ1017]

mmm..

[@omegasage777]

Nothing wrong with vultures. They get hated on for no reason other than people's ignorance

[@Robconnors7253]

I agree..The Media should Educate the public not scare the public.

[@mikerca]

Real genius spaying water up into high voltage electric lines. Surprised he didn’t explode. Would then make a perfect meal for the vultures.

[@quz908]

The power lines are insulated, so you're not going to create a path to ground.

[@nuttybar9]

I'm pretty sure they get wet when it rains.

[@hibiscushoney3759]

That crossed my mind😆 .

[@MV-nt4bq]

You forget that it rains?

[@mikerca]

@@MV-nt4bq when it rains, your not holding on to a conductive path to 13 thousand volts !

[@mastermind2032]

This ain't the first nor will it be the last time that Staten Island residents complain about something black moving into their neighborhood

[@hibiscushoney3759]

🤣 😂 comic

[@righteoussoul2640]

Lol 😆

[@FTW54]

Quality of life > everyone's feelings

[@a1everything164]

The birds suspect something in one of those homes

[@NG-iu9xn]

🤣😆😆💯🤣

[@burritolover5082]

I bet those vultures have contributed more to New York than most New Yorkers

[@NG-iu9xn]

😆🤣🤣

[@burritolover5082]

@@NG-iu9xn New Yorkers get so mad seeing someone actually do something for their city that they want to kill ‘em. That’s that New York love right there. Imagine hunting a vulture cause your afraid it will pick at your dead body…

[@SeymourBucks]

They don't harm live animals. Ppl are so uneducated when it comes to working. They may be pest but they're not going to harm your pet. They actually help the environment with the scavenging that they do.

[@drinny26]

These people need to get a life and leave the birds alone.

[@paulsawczyc5019]

Those people are so stupid - that they are dangerous.

[@apap1586]

Well maybe you're not a homeowner ;you got to protect your property. If vultures are tearing their roofs they have a right to do whatever they have to do.

[@drinny26]

Birds are not ripping off peoples roofs. That’s silly. Maybe peoples roofs are just falling apart on their own. Quit blaming these lazy birds who are just looking for an easy meal.

[@paulsawczyc5019]

@@drinny26 Ha ha, yeah - and I don't think that the birds are knocking over the chimneys either.

[@drinny26]

@@paulsawczyc5019 maybe they’re construction vultures smh lol

[@Tuesday2022]

I deal with bald eagles and hawks in my backyard in WI. Vultures kill nothing. These people are overreacting, I don’t even believe the eye witness about seeing them tearing off roof tiles. So sad when people act like they are some big problem when they just don’t like them.

[@pass_da_knoccs83]

Hopefully they will croak soon since most the whiners are old farts anyway. Then the vultures can live in peace

[@MiamiBeachNativeInNYC]

These people are definitely overreacting; however, the black vultures that gather around the parking lot at the Anhinga Trail/Gumbo Limbo Trail in Everglades National Park in Florida are famous for tearing the rubber parts of windshield wipers and roofs of cars. The rangers even provide tarps to put over your car now.

[@mixedhairless]

This is what happens when a community of people don’t know the basics of animal husbandry.. Vultures do not kill pets, or people or anything else. They eat carcasses of dead things…To see the wonders of nature might be the only reason to go to this prison island.

[@shawnwenzel6074]

Prison island lol who keeping you here ?

[@joshuahavens4059]

Bullshit. Black vultures regularly kill animals. Happens frequently down here in Texas.

[@bobjeep748]

Black vultures are more aggressive than turkey vultures.

[@blindriv3r]

The point is that black vulture are extending their range north. Turkey vultures just eat dead things, black vultures can kill small and weak animals

[@review-report]

*If the Birds were White it wouldn’t be a Problem…*

[@The_Quaalude]

Basically

[@Deadassbruhfrfr]

Because white birds like doves actually contribute to society.

[@boogaloobobby7246]

Because the white birds do not destroy every neighborhood that fly through

[@Ricogrime]

The birds obviously know something y’all don’t. I’d be gone or at the doctors getting checked out

[@ralphkramden1741]

Expecting many corpses to feed on soon.

[@MajorChipHazard1]

The vultures are just getting comfortable and settling in before the big feast.

[@Tank7153]

And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. Revelation 18:2 KJV

[@himZ1017]

@@Tank7153 this..!

[@lesliepropheter5040]

@@Tank7153 vultures are not Devils

[@tmninja]

We've had these birds in the New York city area for years and in jersey too we have turkey vultures as well they can smell dead stuff from miles away... So the real question is who has the dead animals in their yard

[@isaacennis2077]

Maybe too many bodies missing. I guess the Mafia is still at work.

[@theestallion818]

Why would they be concerned about a nature animal????? Like wtf is so much going on in this world smh

[@Unplug_333]

That’s what they do

[@feliperivera5600]

Most of the time they usually eat that creatures like cats rats raccoons birds they don't really bother nobody they just eat that creatures

[@feliperivera5600]

I meant they only eat dead creatures

[@THATGUYDJ321]

With how nasty NYCs streets have been lately I can’t say I blame a creature that feeds on dead things migrating here, all the dead cats and raccoons getting hit in the street almost on a daily is a all you can eat buffet for them.

[@josephdimanche6216]

Saw a dead cat on the highway the other day, ON THE HIGHWAY! And now there is a dead cat on my corner in the east of Queens, it experienced rigor mortus, what the hell?!

[@orangecat5036]

They are so adorable leave them alone.

[@avanulaneway8418]

you need to go look up tibetan funerals, they wont be so cute to you no more

[@siriosstar4789]

I thought most vultures lived in Manhattan penthouses . Seriously , vultures are attracted to carcasses . the police better check for serial killers in the area .

[@alexsep8423]

He's hidden a body they smell rotting corpses I'm a expert

[@terryowen6759]

Get a grip...they do not attack live animals, sure they look scary and apparently they have a fascination with these people's roofs but generally they are harmless

[@Janotes]

The only downside is if they damage the asphalt shingles for some reason.

[@annuitcoeptis2928]

They are scavengers. They help clean up. Also birds are smart and they probably tore up his roof because he fucked with them.

[@moo-kun]

That’s very true! 🙏

[@dreamsroman]

They could be smelling something humans are Not, only time will tell

[@hibiscushoney3759]

Vax in the system. I heard strange things. Idk

[@Shhhh666]

lol They must know something that we don’t know and are just waiting for the abundance of Meals below🤣🤣

[@heathermahony110]

It Sucks about the Damage! But Damn they look Cool!! I always liked Vultures! I Hope they are Safe!!!!

[@wall0184]

Black Vultures can be very scary. Unfortunately Staten Island is not the only borough affected as NYC seems to be infested with Black Vultures in recent times. As a matter of fact many other major cities are having similar issues with Black Vultures

[@r3dhawk3]

what is scary about them ?

[@jesusisking117]

😂😂😂

[@mixedhairless]

Nothing scary about a vulture. WTF you say? A fecking rabid fox is more terrifying than a budgie that feeds off of dead things… So Staten Island is full of dead things that are alive?

[@elizabethborden6132]

They look scary to ignorant people. They're beautiful birds. just adding to that list of reasons I can't stand people, vultures are actually docile , and bond for life as a family.. and the only way they can fend for..themselves is by puking on an agesssor. What has infested the planet are humans taking over , leaving piles of garbage , allow their pets to get lost and hit by cars, hitting other animals. Black vultures only eat carcass of dead animals and out of dumpsters and any garbage slobs leave lying around.

[@elizabethborden6132]

​@@r3dhawk3 people's ignorance

[@stevenhill3136]

When he said a vulture was damaging his roof you just know he's full of it lol

[@MiamiBeachNativeInNYC]

These people are mostly very full of it; however, the black vultures that gather around the parking lot at the Anhinga Trail/Gumbo Limbo Trail in Everglades National Park in Florida are famous for tearing the rubber parts of windshield wipers and roofs of cars. The rangers even provide tarps to put over your car now.

[@stevenhill3136]

@@MiamiBeachNativeInNYC Holy chit

[@NG-iu9xn]

😆💯

[@NG-iu9xn]

🤡 out with a water hose what's that gonna do, shooo them away for a second

[@billjoang]

@@stevenhill3136 😂

[@curtflirt2]

This dude was actually spraying LIVE ELECTRIC WIRES?!!!!!! WTF?!!!

[@jasondonellan776]

That's smart spraying water on a electric poll

[@Robconnors7253]

I've been seeing them since the late 80s on Staten island. Completely Harmless.

[@curtflirt2]

If I were the neighbors, I'd be more scared of this guy than the Vultures. Smh

[@NG-iu9xn]

😆😆🤣🤣💯

[@angc.8810]

And that lady 🤣

[@cyberhype5495]

I'm more worried about the other Black vultures

[@abesalha6953]

I helped a friend dispatch a whole bunch of them at his farm, after he obtained a permit from his state wildlife. They were killing his livestock by pecking them to death in a very gruesome way. Black vultures are scavengers, but they will also killl to eat, unlike the turkey vultures who are strictly scavengers.

[@jasonfreeman1516]

They'll be everywhere soon. Alot of livestock and just animals in general are dying at a mass scale so these guys will do the job

[@lindacoffey4799]

I think they only hoover over the already dead and then eat the remains...

[@Devil3R]

They smelling something others are not.

[@lesliepropheter5040]

As long as it takes to bloat, broken down like pre digestion?

[@moocha4030]

what are they doing to attract the birds that eat carrion?

[@fridaymanly]

Vultures are considered sacred in some religions 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻

[@joecurry382]

Which one

[@nuttybar9]

@@joecurry382 Buddhism .

[@fridaymanly]

@@joecurry382 Santeria

[@ShesooBreezy]

Leave those vultures alone. They need to appreciate nature more. I’m glad they’re federally protected.

[@rescue9810]

Natural selection, they chose the weakest first. Dude was watering power lines, ready to give them a nice meal.

[@ceesee3153]

I don’t think vultures eat roof tiles.

[@MiamiBeachNativeInNYC]

I don’t know about roof tiles, but the black vultures that gather around the parking lot at the Anhinga Trail/Gumbo Limbo Trail in Everglades National Park in Florida are famous for eating the rubber parts of windshield wipers and roofs of cars. The rangers even provide tarps to put over your car now.

[@mysteriousjz]

They had been here for millions of years, before the whiners: They should be questioning the nuisance and destruction of their habitat.

[@pass_da_knoccs83]

-woke asf

[@boogaloobobby7246]

It's about time that they label these people as vultures. They should make them wear caution signs to warn us that they are approaching.

[@Chunlialways]

This guy is a serious Karen. He should be more focused on his name change than on these innocent black vultures.🖤 😤

[@marsaries5417]

BVM?

[@DStew-tc9zz]

Did he just spray water up towards the power lines? Smh

[@4NickAder]

what beautiful and majestic animals

[@millionmasso]

These people ain't got nothing better to do ..with their time .hey let's waste water to try get rid of some birds smh ...probably complain that the grass is to green

[@stardel]

When Vultures gather they smell death.

[@gfbmusic]

White people will fall!!!

[@johnparitsky1130]

There's a lot of vultures circling my neighborhood too. They're pretty loud and I always cross the street. I don't want to get attacked by vultures...

[@DeVandrare]

Down here along the southern border when we see vulture’s circling we call 911 because we know another illegal didn’t make it across the desert. It’s about 2000 in this sector so far this year. This craziness needs to be stopped.

[@LivingLifeOutWest]

😮

[@1911Earthling]

Sorry Biden won’t close border. Very sorry.

[@MatimoreAgain]

This is an omen.

[@kkhs3962]

If they eat rats, then leave them alone

[@nuttybar9]

Maybe someone or something is bothering their natural habitat.

[@staks230]

Yup there's definitely dead bodies somewhere around that neighborhood 🧐

[@LoneWolf-qv8lx]

Leave them alone. Poor things. Isn't man poisoning all the waters and encroaching enough on what little space the wildlife have left?

[@xaviergeorge3359]

How did this make the news. This is a huge nothing burger.

[@pass_da_knoccs83]

People living in safe communities need problems too apparently 😭😭😭

[@thy-wounded]

Can't have black birds we only want white birds in our neighborhood..

[@PassportKingMarineVet]

Just think of Vultures being protected with a crime bill,if you mess with a vulture, you can serve many years in prison.

[@kyromckai9076]

Water on electrical line

[@alima3304]

Serial Killer living among them. They usually take trophies ( bodies or body parts) and the vultures want some. They need to check that guys attic? Seriously....

[@hibiscushoney3759]

Right lol. I wonder what's in his house if they targeting his roof.

[@alima3304]

@@hibiscushoney3759 Yes!! I'd be very interested in what would cause vultures to go crazy trying to get to what was inside 🤔 I live in California and Serial Killers are the norm here. That's how the Police usually locate bodies..

[@hibiscushoney3759]

@@alima3304 either that or bad omen to his house.

[@theestallion818]

If I see them I will pet it softly besides is only a bird smh

[@vivavasquez]

leave the birds alone ! these are harmless birds , people are silly . these people would freak out living in San Diego where hawks eat cats and small dogs all the time , and falcons eat birds all day long . and mountain lions eat people . these people crack me up afraid of birds . they are federally protected , leave them alone ! in the desert they circle where something has died , they have incredible sense of smell . they eat already dead animals . they don't attack living animals or people .

[@aaronx8006]

Is this really news ? Wtf

[@paulking8275]

Omg they are getting so comfortable on my roof. I’m so scared.Lol . Keep in mind that if your house wasn’t there a tree would be there. But since we rip down all the trees to build our homes we are messing up all the wild life’s habitats. I’m pretty sure the bird would rather land in a tree and not a hot roof. It’s not all about us

[@M.C.Blackwell]

I had to change my comment because I looked up vultures and they do indeed damage roof tiles.

[@MiamiBeachNativeInNYC]

I don’t know about roof tiles, but the black vultures that gather around the parking lot at the Anhinga Trail/Gumbo Limbo Trail in Everglades National Park in Florida are famous for tearing the rubber parts of windshield wipers and roofs of cars. The rangers even provide tarps to put over your car now.

[@M.C.Blackwell]

@@MiamiBeachNativeInNYC wow, I didn't know that! That's very interesting and I'll go look up why they do that. Thanks for that information 👍

[@M.C.Blackwell]

@@MiamiBeachNativeInNYC I stand corrected! I deleted part of my comment because I read about vultures after reading what you wrote and they can be very destructive and have been known to damage roof tiles.

[@kaz9781]

Vultures are the most kind and righteous animal they would never hurt a living being

[@jeanbarnette7096]

They are everywhere in NJ 😂😂😂 this is news

[@tavaredixon7874]

These are everywhere in Florida. I see hundreds at a time in some places. We call them buzzards down in Orlando

[@JohnJones-fq7gf]

I want one as a pet

[@jackbilly6745]

He was hosing a power line ? 🤔

[@lordap330]

They sense death coming

[@rainafortini5797]

I have seen these birds share a meal with cats… For years in no way would they ever… I mean I’m surprised you didn’t emphasize that it’s ridiculous to think they would go after live pray they’re very cool birds except they shit all over everything and it’s heartbreaking to think they’re so hungry they’re eating roof tiles…. It’s almost as if we’ve killed off so much of the wildlife there’s that much less roadkill… But vultures play a very important role in the cycle of life…

[@apara2005]

Oh man, that's spooky. I wonder of they sense something? So many wouldn't just settle there unless there was a good source of food in the area (or coming 😱).

[@TheBub26]

we had a hawk spend the summer in our neighborhood which is now birdless. the thing came up from argentina to silence the song

[@jessib7495]

Just yesterday I saw a mated pair while visiting a local tea shop. I thought they were beautiful. Also saw them get cuddly. Apparently they are nesting on a local businesses roof and the shop owners see them all the time.

[@myraa1709]

Saw this in the north shore as well!

[@shahs3262]

This genius spraying water at an electric pole

[@commanderbell1965]

Calm down lady don't worry about your pets. They only eat dead animals

[@patmcbride9853]

Headline writer misses irony. Idiots worried about live pets are funny.

[@gladyslbrooks]

They smell decay.

[@wileecoyote5749]

Interesting. No problem describing color of vulture but when describing suspect you describe as this person/man.

[@shama9279]

They sense death. They are waiting for the next meal.

[@chriszenko3598]

It’s not just in Staten Island the black vultures have been reeking havoc on all 5 boroughs vigorously

[@greggreg2263]

The vultures are moving in because they know the end is near😳⚡️🔥🎯

[@MajorChipHazard1]

Yup. Lots fresh meat for them.

[@westcruz3878]

Do you think it’s smart watering the powerlines 😬

[@jkcesko3597]

Really good idea spraying water on power lines.....

[@UnstoppableYaris]

I thought it was going to be another inner city youth story.

[@johnb6371]

Someone needs to start BLVM. PROTECT THEM. So they can start hunting.

[@angc.8810]

I was waiting to see this comment lmao 🤣

[@Saxxin1]

Omen. They have instincts. Lots of food coming soon.

[@criscris9567]

Inflation is serious I brought pasta and meat a hundred dollars they know y’all about to starve they smell the fear

[@rb2538]

Why this people are so scared this birds they clean your yards of dead animals is more of a blessing than harm

[@RealBillP]

I thought that one of those Vultures was wearing a bibb! I thought he also requested a light cocktail and an appetizer!😳

[@JD-vn8gf]

Dead bodies all over that place