Yeah, that's a common vulture, or a "Texas Turkey" as we used to call them in Albuquerque years ago. It's not really a bird of prey since it survives completely on pre-killed animals (carrion), usually already rotted meat (road kill, etc.).
Their nostrils are way oversized for their heads, allowing them to catch the scent of a kill better than any other creature that I know of, and they have an incredibly intense and sensitive olfactory system that allows them to smell dead things from even thousands of feet in the air. It's all phermones. They smell their meal before they see it as they float far above everything.
Those big birds prefer to ride on thermals and rely on heat updrafts coming off of the land to really catch some air. That's why they're not as active in the colder months, although they will still do the whole vulture thing even then, just not nearly as efficiently. They have to air out their wings in the mornings after heavy dew or dampness to dry them out due to the the density and surface area of all of their heavy-duty flight feathers. They look plump and full, but are actually rather scrawny creatures close up, just covered in dense plumage.
To touch one is not pleasant. They just put off a bad vibe - to me at least - and are rather nasty as they live on, eat, and crawl through all kinds of dead animals to survive. I've seen them crawling out of an old dead mule a farmer drug off in his field to get rid of when I was a boy growing up in the country. The vultures had entered the bloated, dead mule from its split-open stomach, and I watched them eat itheir way out of the mule exiting through its outstretched ****, feathers just covered in gunk. They're just filthy, eye-catching big birds in the sky that can be chased away by a blackbird, crow, or any bird 1/5th its size. They have no fight in them really.