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On a May morning in Pokhara, Nepal’s tourist town in the lap of the world-famous Annapurna range, 40-year-old Hemanta Dhakal ...
By its simplest definition, a vulture is a bird of prey that feeds on carrion, which is the meat of dead animals. The media ...
Tens of thousands of turkey vultures glide over the Detroit River, offering citizen scientists a surprising highlight of hawk ...
The vultures can be spotted in the Thompson-Okanagan region between April and September, flying, perching, squabbling amongst ...
Nature’s least loved animals are dying fast. This could make the environment stinky and pathogens unstoppable.
Attendees were given the opportunity to engage with and learn more about turkey vultures during the event, which highlighted the environmental impacts of the bird species.
Ralph the turkey vulture served as an animal ambassador at the EcoTarium. The turkey vulture is one of two knowns species of vulture in Massachusetts. Vultures are primarily carrion-seeking birds. He ...
A turkey vulture’s stomach acid is so powerfully corrosive it can safely digest carcasses infected with deadly diseases like rabies.
Both crows and vultures function as ecosystem engineers—species that significantly modify their environment, creating habitat for other organisms. Vultures, through their feeding habits, alter the ...
An Advance/SILive.com reporter spotted turkey vultures gobbling up a dead opossum on Hylan Boulevard in early May.
Turkey vultures have a major PR problem. Many people view them as black-feathered villains with menacing bone-colored beaks that skulk on tree branches and circle the skies waiting for animals and ...
BLUE SPRINGS, Missouri (KSHB) — A Blue Springs neighborhood is trying to ward off a pair of turkey vultures that have been seen causing damage to neighbors homes and vehicles. Currently, the Missouri ...