Hyderabad: With Nehru Zoological Park's vultures aging and unable to reproduce, the zoo has launched a vulture breeding ...

However, over the past four years, the birds have been consistently reproducing, a positive sign for the conservation of ...

By sunrise the loner is dead, draped in a roiling scrum of vultures, 40 or so birds searching for a way to invade its earthly remains. Some of the scavengers wait patiently, with a Nixonian hunch ...

It's not exactly a compliment to be called a vulture. They circle overhead when disaster or death is imminent. They scavenge and scrounge, feeding on things killed by nature or man, feasting on ...

What is the white-backed vulture? The white-backed vulture is the most common and widespread vulture in sub-Saharan Africa. It is recognizable by its dark-brown face, long, white neck, and of ...

Hot Springs Village Audubon will welcome back Margrit and Russ Harris to update members and guests on the fate of the ...

Vultures play a critical role in the environment, cleaning up carcasses and acting as nature’s garbagemen. However, black vultures (Cathartes aura) are unique among New World vultures in that they are ...

Vultures have long evoked images of death, hovering over ailing animals and feeding off their rotting corpses. But the near extinction of the scavenger birds in India during the 1990s led to the ...

In Kenya, Kwenia area in Kajiado, which is recognised as one of the few sites in the world where vultures breed, is flagged as being in danger. Kwenia’s cliffs are the most important breeding ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A “committee” of Cape vultures is swooping into the Los Angeles Zoo to make its home in an exhibit that seeks to mirror the birds’ natural South African habitat.