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 ...

Dark flying creatures such as bats, ravens, crows and owls have long been a staple of Halloween decorations. Lately, another creepy, carrion-eating critter perched on gnarled, barren limbs has been ...

Craig Rathkamp took this photo in his back yard in the Valley of a migrating Turkey Vulture that had rested in an Arizona ...

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 ...

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.

Longtime Marin residents will remember the late Elizabeth Terwilliger’s famous mnemonic for telling the difference between a flying hawk and a flying turkey vulture: “V is for vulture!” A large ...

Turkey vultures never seem to hurry. They glide silently above us, drawing circles in the air, calligraphers with quill pens. They tip and turn up there in the wind, rarely flapping those long willowy ...

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 ...