A comprehensive field study focused on raptors was just launched. Led by the Wildlife Institute of India, the study will tag and track 36 raptors across six separate species, including tawny eagles, ...

Perhaps these solar eclipse spectators had a little bit too much fun preparing for the event — two black vultures found "drunk" inside a dumpster in Watertown, Connecticut. The vultures were rescued ...

Vultures and other birds of prey eat a lot of dead carcasses. While you might think that’s gross, it saves lives. Find out why and other interesting birds of prey dinner tricks. Science Trek is ...

As many as 100 vultures may feed on a single cow carcass, stripping it clean in 30 minutes. Two thousand, 3,000, even 10,000 vultures swarmed the larger dumps in the early 1990s, the huge birds ...

Marlene Condon’s Op/Ed column, “Black vultures aren’t predators,” reminds me of the story about the city fellow who told the old farmer that “according to the laws of physics, the bumble bee can’t fly ...

A king vulture (Sarcoramphus papa) at the Johannesburg Zoo in South Africa during the public viewing event held to raise awareness about the threats faced by bird species in the country due to climate ...

The birds are widely reviled for their carrion-eating ways. But an evolutionary history of scavenging has forged a creative, cunning and wide-ranging mind. Lappet-faced vultures, Shredder and Kenya, ...

The white-backed vulture (Gyps africanus) is an Old World vulture, as its habitat does not extend into the New World or the western hemisphere. This large bird is native to the open plains and ...