These are the birds you are to regard as unclean and not eat because they are unclean: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture. The bird section takes a different approach from the land animal and water creature sections: instead of stating positive criteria for clean birds, it lists the unclean birds individually. The twenty birds and bat listed as unclean are identified by species rather than by abstract criteria. Most of the listed birds are birds of prey or carrion eaters — birds that consume blood and flesh in ways inconsistent with the covenant's restrictions on blood consumption.

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