# Cathartes aura at Tomales Bay

- By: Frank Schulenburg
- Date: 2014-12-07
- Classification: Photograph
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cathartes_aura_at_Tomales_Bay.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/6/65/Cathartes_aura_at_Tomales_Bay.jpg/1920px-Cathartes_aura_at_Tomales_Bay.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Turkey vulture (Cathartes aura septentrionalis) perched atop a piece of wood on the eastern side of Tomales Bay, Marin County, California.