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 ...

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

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

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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