UGLY CAUSE OF ELECTRICAL BROWNOUTS TURKEY VULTURES' HABITS CALLED A POWER PROBLEM

From: The Boston Globe | Date: August 1, 2004| Author: Kathleen Burge, Globe Staff | Copyright information

GARDNER The turkey vulture has never had much going for it in the looks department, with its hulking body and tiny, naked head. And it has never been known as an avatar of taste, with its diet of roadkill and other dead animals.

Now the bird is suffering another blow to its reputation: as a decades-long interrupter of electricity, provoking countless computer crashes and blinking VCR clocks.

National Grid USA, the parent company of Massachusetts Electric Co., is finishing a $4.4...

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