But the friendly banter stopped when Ditiro spotted something unusual: a couple of vultures in a nearby tree.
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However our agriculture ministry appears to be the main delay to saving vultures from extinction.
BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Bird groups hopeful on vultures
The Indian government has sanctioned a nationwide census of vultures to establish how many remain.
BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Bird groups hopeful on vultures
I'd like to give it the benefit of the doubt, but the vultures are circling above.
With the legal vultures circling, Microsoft may now be forced to defend itself on several fronts.
These days, culture vultures can no longer just presume to buy tickets at the door.
Hong Kong sets the bar for China's culture vultures generally, and its gustatory influence is pervasive.
But the vultures are out there already sharpening their talons for the day when that happens.
But on launch day it all comes down to the uncontrollable forces of nature: clouds, rain, lighting and vultures.
Vultures began circling and some of the smartest analysts in business declared that a death watch has begun.
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"The obvious thing is it can't be the sound of vultures ripping apart a bison or anything, " he says.
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"Developers realize the next South Florida condo construction boom is just beginning, " said Peter Zalewski, principal of Condo Vultures.
Greece and the Eurozone increasingly resemble a dying animal, with vultures circling above.
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Culture vultures are flocking to the Nokia Theatre or the visually arresting, Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall.
He thinks the scene might illustrate a specifically Neolithic myth involving vultures who carry away the heads of dead people.
The time to build coalitions is before you are stripped bare of your garments and the vultures are circling overhead.
After putting out a few records on Sub Pop, Rogue Wave moved to Jack Johnson's Brushfire Records for 2005's Descended Like Vultures.
A-Rod caught a reprieve for awhile after the Yankees finally won again in 2009, but now the vultures are back.
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The three panelled picture depicts a headless human form surrounded by three vultures and flanked by two portraits of disfigured human faces.
Lawyers for the hedge funds say the group's members have been vilified on message boards and called greedy speculators, criminals and vultures.
Long abandoned due to the raging war, it is literally a shell, a carcass that vultures would not bother picking at anymore.
Black vultures, once just vagrants this far north, thrive in New Haven.
Regulators and competitors hang over the deal like vultures over wounded prey.
It was thought that Premier League vultures would swoop for the club's assets such as David Wheater, Tuncay and the injured Stewart Downing.
Our car climbs to the crest of one hill, where Douglas spies a lioness guarding a giraffe carcass from a mob of vultures.
In the bleached sky, kites and vultures wheeled at a great height on the afternoon thermals, as if the sky itself were slowly turning.
Huge Himalayan vultures wheel eye-level with the road, while tiny tits inhabit a range of vegetation, from conifers and cedars to broadleaved oaks and rhododendrons.
Some of them stopped suddenly in place to snap a photo of the beautiful but menacing cloud formations that had followed the hurricane like vultures.
Tests on captive vultures fed carcass flesh traced with the drug produced symptoms that were strikingly similar to those witnessed in sick birds in the wild.
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