Today, I was driving on one of our major streets, and noticed (about twenty feet off the road) two giant birds picking at a dead deer on the edge of a cemetart. (It was so amazingly creepy.) I've never seen birds like these in my life. They were huge (at least two feel long) and black with carnivorous down-turned beaks and red faces to just beyond their eyes. I parked the car and walked up to get a picture, but I couldn't get close enough without them flying away.

Do we have vultures here? I've never heard of them in this area, but that is what these looked like. I can't find a good picture of anything similar to them, or a site about IL birds that has pictures. Any info or sites that you might know would be helpful.