They could use fakes, though in Fauquier’s case, the biologist proposed using real, dead birds, according to correspondence with Hilleary. “Apparently live vultures are offended and will not ...

A few years ago, advances in analytical approaches to studying fossils prompted researchers to become more interested in the ...

Growing flocks have begun to unnerve some who live in parts of the Cumberland County town. But help is on the way.

It's not exactly a compliment to be called a vulture. They circle overhead when disaster or death is imminent. They scavenge and scrounge, feeding on things killed by nature or man, feasting on ...

"They're rather foreboding, and they leave their feces along the tree, the branches and on the ground under the tree," said ...

“It feels like a version of looting.” Real estate vultures are circling the middle-class community of Altadena and other burned out parts of Los Angeles, hungry to turn a profit from fire ...

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 ...

Vultures play a critical role in the environment, cleaning up carcasses and acting as nature’s garbagemen. However, black vultures (Cathartes aura) are unique among New World vultures in that they are ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A “committee” of Cape vultures is swooping into the Los Angeles Zoo to make its home in an exhibit that seeks to mirror the birds' natural South African habitat.