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Animals A to Z Activity: Vulture

Students learn interesting facts about animals as they reinforce basic skills of capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

If you would like to share a photo of this animal with your students, we suggest you search the Google Image Library; it is an excellent source of animal photos. And EnchantedLearning.com offers coloring pages related to all of our Animals A to Z animals.

Activity Key

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  • A vulture is a large, meet-eating bird. Vultures have very few enemys.
  • Unlike other birds, a turkey vulture have a very good sense of smell.
  • Vultures can fly for 6 hours at a time they glide over air pockets.
  • If a vulture's dinner has skin that is to thick, he waits for a larger animal to eat first.
  • A turkey vulture weighs 6 pound and have a wingspan of 6 feet.
  • Unlike most birds, vultures do not build nest

Answer Key

  • A vulture is a large, meat-eating bird. Vultures have very few enemies.
  • Unlike other birds, a turkey vulture has a very good sense of smell.
  • Vultures can fly for 6 hours at a time. They glide over air pockets.
  • If a vulture's dinner has skin that is too thick, he waits for a larger animal to eat first.
  • A turkey vulture weighs 6 pounds and has a wingspan of 6 feet.
  • Unlike most birds, vultures do not build nests .

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About Animals A to Z

Education World's Animals A to Z printable activity pages are designed for weekly use with students in grade 2-4. Students learn interesting facts about animals they know (and some animals they don't know) as they reinforce basic skills of capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

These work sheets are also excellent test-preparation tools. The skills emphasized in the series are those found on all standardized tests in grades 2 and 3: simple word usage, end-of-sentence punctuation, comma placement in a series, basic spelling, and others. The skills do not include the appropriate use of apostrophes (except in contractions) and more advanced skills. If you want editing activities that include those skills, be sure to see our daily Every-Day Edit series.

For more information about this series, or for ideas for using it, be sure to see the Ideas for Using Animals A to Z page.

Note: At first, these activities might be challenging for your students. That's not a bad thing! Encourage them to keep at it. Go over the activities as a class. If students stick to it, they will get better at finding all ten errors on each work sheet. They'll be developing the skills that they will encounter on standardized tests too!