Vultures make Honesdale look "like an Alfred Hitchcock movie," a resident says. They're also helpful by clearing dead animals ...

Turkey vultures live in a range of habitats ... tens of millions of metric tons of carbon emissions each year by eating carcasses before they decompose and release greenhouse gases.

It only feeds on carrion—the carcasses of dead animals—and, by eating flesh before it rots, the vulture prevents dangerous bacteria and viruses from growing on decomposing carcasses.