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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

However, over the past four years, the birds have been consistently reproducing, a positive sign for the conservation of these endangered species. Typically, vultures breed only once a year, making ...

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 ...