{"id":843561,"date":"2026-09-11T01:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T01:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/843561\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T01:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T01:20:15","slug":"vultures-swarm-louisville-neighborhood-see-photos-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/843561\/","title":{"rendered":"Vultures swarm Louisville neighborhood: See photos here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why are vultures swarming this Louisville neighborhood?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/7a293606-e877-4093-ab72-7b498948e3d6_1635101776.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Alex Suckow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>LOUISVILLE, Ky. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Vultures have invaded a neighborhood in Louisville.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Neighbors say they started gathering Thursday morning on North 27th Street in the Portland neighborhood. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The big, black birds were on rooftops, power lines, on the ground picking at loose garbage.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Photos shared by neighbors show one home had at least 15 on its roof at one time. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">&#8220;It&#8217;s pretty eerie out here,&#8221; we heard officers say via Broadcastify.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">While neighbors say they&#8217;ve seen vulture around there before, this is more than normal.  <\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;re they doing there? <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">We don&#8217;t know yet for sure.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"9\">According to the University of Kentucky, the number of the migratory birds tend to increase across the state in the fall as they move south.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"10\">They are attracted to garbage (like the pile spilled on the street), dead animals, as well as high, open spaces for perching, like the roofs they were spotted on.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"11\">WLKY has reached out to Kentucky Fish and Wildlife with some questions.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"12\">Jamie Mayes is talking to neighbors. This story may be updated as we learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why are vultures swarming this Louisville neighborhood? LOUISVILLE, Ky. \u2014 Vultures have invaded a neighborhood in Louisville. Neighbors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-843561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}