Here's everything you need to know about being a turkey vulture, and how it differs from a cougar, as we learned from The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning.

The saucy 75-year-old travel agent and former lounge singer refers to herself as a “turkey vulture" — and she lets viewers know exactly what she means by that.

Laurie Rott took these photos of a group of adult turkey vultures she spotted in a neighbor’s oak tree in Golden Hills, when ...

With summer just around the corner, I would like to highlight one of my favorite birds — the turkey vulture.. For me, they conjure up hot summer days as I watch them ride and circle in the updrafts.

In contrast to the odor-sensitive turkey vulture, black vultures find dead animals visually, and especially by searching for turkey vultures that have sniffed out a rotten meal.

Like many other species of vulture, these birds feed on the remains of already dead animals, rather than killing prey themselves. Despite their large size — with wingspans reaching around 5.5 ...

Turkey vulture populations are not threatened. The species receives special legal protections under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918. It is illegal to kill or possess them.

Turkey vultures are nature's cleanup crew. The turkey vulture (Cathartes aura) ranges nearly the entirety of the Western Hemisphere from northern Canada to Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of ...

Turkey vultures defecate and urinate on their own feet to cool them down in hot weather. Because the vultures' digestive juices kill bacteria, pooping on their legs also works as an antiseptic ...