Weighing up to 30 pounds and supported by short, stubby orange legs with webbed feet, the American white pelican waddles like penguins when moving on land. All the while, a supersized orange bill juts ...

Most folks don’t pay much attention to turkey vultures as they soar high in the sky; they only give us a closer glimpse of ...

By its simplest definition, a vulture is a bird of prey that feeds on carrion, which is the meat of dead animals. The media ...

Large scavengers like vultures and hyenas do an important job in protecting human health. But studies show these creatures ...

On a May morning in Pokhara, Nepal’s tourist town in the lap of the world-famous Annapurna range, 40-year-old Hemanta Dhakal ...

Local property owners and volunteers are giving kestrels a chance to thrive in an age where the species’ population has declined.

"That obviously hasn't worked." Black vultures, and their red-headed relatives the turkey vultures, are sometimes called buzzards. Black vultures are almost all black, with 5-foot wingspans.

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