Vultures have an important job to do scavenging carrion, which helps reduce the risk of diseases from spreading in the environment. But when they decide to roost on or near your house, it’s generally ...

Black vultures were feasting on a dead squirrel flattened by the countless cars that had run over it on a street by our house. The vultures ate up every morsel of what they must have considered a ...

EMINENCE, Ky. (AP) — Allan Bryant scans the sky as he watches over a minutes-old calf huddled under a tree line with its mother. After a few failed tries, the calf stands on wobbly legs for the first ...

The most abundant buzzard across the United States is still the turkey vulture, which sports pink skin on its head, a long tail and a V-shaped wing profile. But increasingly, it is the black vulture ...

The two birds shown here are black vultures that I photographed on Feb. 2 in Stoddard County.  In Southeast Missouri two kinds of vultures grace our skies: turkey vultures and black vultures.

Spring is a period when many birds are on the move. This means it is a great time of year for birders to be on the lookout for rarities or vagrants. A rarity is a bird that usually appears somewhere ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — An Advance/SILive.com reporter spotted turkey vultures gobbling up a dead opossum on Hylan Boulevard in early May. On the bridge spanning over Lemon Creek on Staten Island’s ...

EMINENCE, Ky. – Allan Bryant scans the sky as he watches over a minutes-old calf huddled under a tree line with its mother. After a few failed tries, the calf stands on wobbly legs for the first time, ...