Demand for vultures in belief-based trade in parts of West Africa is now raising concern for populations farther east, ...

Why it's awesome: These scavenger birds have an unexpected way of keeping predators away — by projectile vomiting stomach acid and semi-digested meat at their attackers. Turkey vultures live in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's not exactly a compliment to be called a vulture. They circle overhead when disaster or death is imminent. They scavenge and ...

Multiple Types of Vultures Live in the U.S. Three types of vultures live in the United States—the turkey vulture, black vulture and California condor (which is a vulture bird, despite not having that ...

Local birders take part in the hunt for two tagged White Backed Vultures that had not moved for two days in a row.

RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources is asking for the public's help after receiving reports of dead black vultures across the state. According to a news release from DWR, ...

BLUE SPRINGS, Missouri (KSHB) — A Blue Springs neighborhood is trying to ward off a pair of turkey vultures that have been seen causing damage to neighbors homes and vehicles. Currently, the Missouri ...

Over 100 black vultures were found dead on the Sussex Branch Trail in Lafayette, Sussex County, New Jersey. The deaths have apparently been occurring since early August, and avian influenza (also ...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) said preliminary tests have confirmed that Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) was detected in the black vultures recovered from the park. The ...

Decades after its release into the wild, a super-ageing, bone-crunching vulture called Balthazar reveals a major conservation success. In the autumn of 2025, wildlife experts in the French Alps made a ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Four new "vulture restaurants" have opened in ...