Most folks don’t pay much attention to turkey vultures as they soar high in the sky; they only give us a closer glimpse of ...

Birds are often seen as graceful and harmless, but some species possess shocking abilities that make them dangerous, even deadly. From the fierce Cassowary, with its bone-crushing talons, to the ...

The world's 23 vulture species, including turkey vultures, black vultures and California condors (which are endangered) here in the U.S., have sharp vision to help them spot carrion from high above.

Notably, when Tony describes her as, “That's what they call a turkey vulture — 20 years past a cougar, still likes to hunt but too old to take down the prey,” the woman he's talking about ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The great Dutch scavenger hunt is over. Five days after thermals and gusty winds swept Abu the white-back vulture away from the private bird of prey breeding center ...

This resulted in the spread of deadly pathogens and a rise in disease-carrying rats and feral dogs. Ultimately, about half a million people died from 2000 to 2005 from complications that could be ...

It was a young black vulture, probably on the hunt for some mice. These birds normally nest farther south, but they were spotted nesting in Vermont for the first time in 2020 . Pretty cool!