Remove roadkill or animal carcasses from your property as soon as possible. Use predator decoys. Hanging an owl or hawk decoy in the area can make them wary. Avoid leaving pet food outside. Shiny ...

Not all vultures are alike, so Wild Georgia columnist Charles Seabrook explains which ones search for food and which ones muscle their way into mealtime.

Black vulture ecology There are only three species of vulture in the U.S., including black vultures, turkey vultures and California condors.

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

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 ...

Black vultures are able to take over a carcass from their larger relatives through patiently waiting until a whole gang has been recruited, and then chasing off the turkey vultures as a group.

Ranchers across the Midwest are battling black vultures, a federally protected bird that has a reputation for killing newborn livestock. While the birds play a major ecological role, their ...

Thus, black vultures will watch and follow turkey vultures when they drop down to feed. At the carcass they are often dominant and will drive away the turkey vulture.

Black vultures are smaller, have a disproportionately short tail and possess a bare head that is black instead of pink. In contrast to the odor-sensitive turkey vulture, black vultures find dead ...

Outdoors calendar, 7/24 The bird’s appearance also did not appear to match the expected species, the turkey vulture. After some study, Kruse determined the bird at Merganser Lake was a black ...