My wife and I were driving on a rural road in Bibb County in Middle Georgia the other day when I spied a dark mass on the grassy roadside ahead of us. “Vultures,” I said. “Ugh,” said my wife. I slowed ...

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 ...

Black vultures are given a bad rap. Despite being unsightly to many and bothersome at times, experts believe these large birds are unsung heroes of our ecosystem. Their ability to eat carrion, or the ...

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 ...

This week on Discover Nature, the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) is partnering with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on a multi-year study to better mediate conflicts with black ...

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 ...

RAPID CITY S.D. (KELO) — A turkey vulture that was injured near Belle Fourche is now in the care of the Black Hills Raptor Center. Maggie Engler, the executive director at the Black Hills Raptor ...

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — In the great circle of life, and the eat-or-be-eaten story of nature’s food web, there is one species in Delaware that shows up at THE END. They are big, they are intimidating ...

A key symbol of autumn's arrival in South Florida is the burgeoning population of migrating vultures, whose brooding glower and foreboding frame can startle those unaware of their mostly harmless ...