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Comment by Javis

These NPCs seem to have a very long respawn time (10+ minutes).

Comment by Airez

Salt Flats Vulture also has the ability to Execute when the player is at low-health, which does around 200 - 250 damage.

Comment by vexis58

This is the lowest-level beast out of the three that know the ability Screech (Rank 2).

Unless you want to wait until level 39 to tame a Dread Ripper in Desolace or trek into Uldaman at level 37 to tame an elite Shrike Bat, you're going to have to search the Salt Flats for one of these vultures.

There are only three of them, and they patrol the three areas shown on the map:
1. West of the town, between the silithids and the scorpids
2. South of the town, inside the basilisk area and along the wall to the east of it
3. Directly east of the town near the racetrack

The patrolling vultures in the northern half of the Salt Flats are the lower level Salt Flats Scavengers who do not know the skill. The vultures do take about 10 minutes to respawn, so if you are looking for one that is level 32, be prepared to search for quite a while.

Comment by 12719

My experience is that while there are three spots where these birds can appear, there is only one out there at any given time. I spent about two hours out there riding from location to location and found this bird just two times. The first time was a level 34 (my toon is level 32) in the southern area. The second time, much later and after the level 34 had disappeared, I found a level 33 in the western area. The 33 was killed by some questers. I figure I'll level to 33/34 in that area before I see a level 32 lol.

Comment by 232927

There is a large skeleton in the NE section of the flats (87.8, 65.9) where 6 scavengers hang out. Seems about 15 min to respawn, at least 10.

Comment by 223447

If you go in a circle around the shimmering flats and do not finish this quest, I recomend that you just abandon the quest and move on.

Comment by FuxieDK

There never seem to be more than 1 or 2 in the entire zone...

And then agonising long wait for respawn..

Comment by 406368

"A particular term or expression may be deprecated when the term becomes obsolete, essentially superfluous and either has no meaning or serves no purpose and becomes essentially empty verbiage."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecated

In essence, this NPC is being replaced/removed from the game due to major area changes in an Cataclysm. =^)

His area is now DEEPLY underwater, and many have been eliminated by the floods (Halo reference y'all!). The dead ones are still seen at the bottom of the old Salt Flats until then.

Comment by 406368

"A particular term or expression may be deprecated when the term becomes obsolete, essentially superfluous and either has no meaning or serves no purpose and becomes essentially empty verbiage."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecated

In essence, this NPC HAS BEEN REPLACED in the game due to major area changes in Cataclysm. =^)

His area is now DEEPLY underwater, and many have been eliminated by the floods (Halo reference y'all!). The dead ones are still seen at the bottom of the old Salt Flats until then.

It has been replaced with the neutral version which only appears in six locations now Salt Flats Vulture

Comment by Thottbot

great middle of the road pet for any hunter looking for decent DPS and the ability to take on 2 of it's own level at once.

Can't tank like a boar, but takes the same lvl mob out in half the time.

Comment by Thottbot

This is the lowest level pet to come with screech level 2. This makes it very good at holding aggro - even from muliple mobs, although it is a melee aoe effect and you may need to disable if crowd control measures are being used by other party members.
The last post is not really correct, this pet may have armor/stamina a bit less than a boar but it is much better at holding aggro from dps or healers, especially when taking on multiple mobs. Therefore it is extremely good at tanking - if you consider tanking to be mainly about aggro management.

Comment by Thottbot

I can't find the bird on the area mentioned, it's not Salt Flats Vulture available there but Salt Flats Scavenger and it have NO screech rank 2

Comment by Thottbot

The vulture is somewhat hard to find. The is usually one flying around the area in the thottbot map.

Comment by Allakhazam

I've been trying to tame these for "screech" but they always appear to be lvl 33. I could just be unlucky and will keep at it, but they do seem to be spawning at lvl 33 and lvl 34.

Comment by hevgirl

I have done my best to provide Map Mouseovers for each and every beast, wherever possible!
Unfortunately some do not yet have maps, but these will automatically be added to this post when they're added to the NPC's page.

Blasts a single enemy for damage and lowers the melee attack power of all enemies in melee range.
Effect lasts 4 sec.
Can be learned by: Bat, Carrion Bird, Bird of Prey.

Demoralizing Screech Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3	Rank 4
7-9 Damage, -25 AP	12-16 Damage, -50 AP	19-25 Damage, -75 AP	26-46 Damage, -100 AP
Pet Level: 8, Cost: 10 TP	Pet Level: 24, Cost: 15 TP	Pet Level: 48, Cost: 20 TP	Pet Level: 56, Cost: 25 TP
Greater Fleshripper	Salt Flats Vulture Shrike Bat Dread Ripper	Ironbeak Owl Dark Screecher Carrion Vulture	Monstrous Plaguebat Winterspring Screecher

Comment by addohm

It seems as though there are only ever 2-3 of these up at any one time. If you're trying to get yourself a 32, and only find a 33 or higher, you need to kill the higher level ones and hope the next one that spawns is 32.

Comment by Oziah

ALERT: MAKE SURE YOU ARE TAMING A VULTURE AND NOT A SCAVENGER!
THEY LOOK THE SAME BUT ARE DIFFERENT NAMES.
THE SCAVENGERS DO NOT HAVE SCREECH RANK 2
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^READ ABOVE^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I've been running around there for an hour and only ever found about 3 in the whole zone up at any given time. They have all been in the southern portion of the oval shape in the east. South of the words "The Shimmering Flats" on the map. So far I have been unlucky with spawns. I need a level 32 and I only found 33s and 34s. Good lucky hunters!

Comment by soylock

Found a level 32 one at 70,75

Comment by Spartacurse

I, too, was looking for a 32 one today as it is the earliest horde hunters can get Screech (unless you wanna trek to Westfall).

I happened upon a 34 one at 85, 75, circled the area for 20 min but no rs. Found another one about 30 mins later at 85, 70 (slightly north of the first one). Also found a 33 one at 70,75 hugging the wall and slowly flying north towards the scorpion pack.

I formulated this made up idea that they spawn near the dead turtle at approx. 82,82 but that was never confirmed as I didn't see another one spawn there for the hour I was in the area.

After said hour I decided the time spent would be better utilized actually level to 34 so that I would be guaranteed to be able to tame one when I returned, and found one ofc. So I did, and it was probably more worth it for my sanity to just level to 34 and come back - just riding around and finding one per 30 min and it is the wrong level was just silly after a while.

EDIT: The more time I've spent in the zone the more I've seen lower level -Vultures (Not -Scavengers) in the west part of the subzone (the shimmering flats) just south from the scorpion cluster. So camp that, is my suggestion. Fewer people there as well.

Comment by Malifious

As of 10/20/2023 on HC Classic I found that the spawn rate on these, considering how long it takes to run in a semi-circle, is fairly good.
I found one just SE of the "Flats" title on the map, another near the Gazer spawns at the trenches, and another NW of the turn in the track by the gazers.

The gazer spawn made it nearly impossible to tame one, even when I found a Lvl 32, strictly because of the farmers, bots, and constant mobs. I ended up snagging mine East of "Shimmering Flats" and am happily training it up now.

They don't hit very hard, especially if you throw Monkey on, but I would recommend clearing out any neighboring mobs first before engaging with one.

I wasn't a believer before and only ever played with cats but oh boy, Screech is ridiculous for holding aggro. No matter how hard I try I haven't been able to peel his main target, aside from using distracting shot.

Comment by bluefincat

Jesus these guys know Execute, I was shocked when it did me in for 260

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[Deprecated for 4.x]Salt Flats Vulture

This NPC can be found in Thousand Needles (336).

[Deprecated for 4.x]Salt Flats Vulture

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