The Bearded Vulture is a unique bird that specialises in eating bone marrow by breaking bones and swallowing them whole ...

Long, hooked bills help vultures tear at muscle and other tissue; the lack of feathers on their heads helps them stay clean as they eat somewhat, uh, messy meals. In the U.S., there are three ...

The country has roughly 1,600 lions left.) Inevitably vultures also visit the livestock carcass, or they eat the poisoned lions themselves. Whatever the vector, the birds, which can feed in ...

Migrating birds are now returning to Wahkiakum County, including turkey vultures. This homage is for them Wonderful ...

Midgette, a retired Navy environmental scientist, and her husband are used to seeing wildlife on their rambling 17-acre ...

[AFP] More than 500 endangered vultures died of poisoning after eating the carcasses of three elephants killed by poachers in Botswana, the government said in a statement. A total of 537 vultures ...

Vultures have long evoked images of death, hovering over ailing animals and feeding off their rotting corpses. But the near extinction of the scavenger birds in India during the 1990s led to the ...