My son playing dead to try to attract vultures pic.twitter.com/OACKQh3BBX
— The Birdist (@TheBirdist) October 22, 2022
Nicholas Lund, a birdwatcher and science writer in Portland, Maine, is passing along his life lessons to his son. In this video, the boy lies still on the ground in the hope of attracting circling vultures to approach him.
The child is not doing anything novel. Lying down on the ground to attract carrion feeders is apparently a shared practice for ornithologists when they are children.