Kenya, the female vulture, hopped onto a tree stump in the middle of their outdoor enclosure at the Maryland Zoo. Shredder, the male vulture, hopped onto another stump nearby. Kenya jumped back to ...

For nearly twenty years, Yam Bahadur Nepali has been known as the “vulture chef” of Jatayu Restaurant. Every week, Nepali, a strong and stocky forty-one-year-old, hitches animal carcasses to a ...

MURCHISON FALLS NATIONAL PARK, Uganda—It’s all about picking the right vulture for the job. The African white-backed is a reliable homebody. Baldheaded, stern-eyed, a white-backed can be ...

I’ve learned that vulture is a more accurate translation. But I still find myself translating the biblical phrase “al kanfei ...

A baby vulture at a New York zoo is being fed not by another bird but by a hand puppet — a decades-old technique used to ensure the chick doesn’t identify too closely with its human handlers.

The baby bird is the first king vulture chick hatched at the zoo in three decades WCS photographer, Terria Clay The Bronx Zoo in New York is trying a playful method to get its newest king vulture ...

Was it searching for “carrion” luggage? A Brazilian pilot was literally flipped the bird after a vulture crashed through his cockpit window and hung lifelessly in front of him for the ...

Tyee contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist whose books and articles focus on epidemics, the energy industry, nature and more. New documentary captures two First ...

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 ...