The flight of a vulture is a beautiful thing. It is effortless, almost completely unreliant on laborious flapping — to say nothing of the clamorous combustion we resort to when we lift ourselves ...

The turkey vulture's distinctive slow, teetering flight style probably helps the bird soar at low altitudes, where it is best able to use its nose to find carrion.

The answer is looking for dead things, but the turkey vulture’s role in our ecosystem goes far beyond their disgusting job description. Everything about a vulture is built for soaring, and, let ...

Turkey vultures have evolved to have the most finely-attuned sense of smell among nearly all birds, which has also allowed them to be the most ubiquitous of all the 23 vulture species in the world ...

Despite their large size — with wingspans reaching around 5.5 feet (1.7 meters) — they're also preyed upon by other birds, including eagles, owls and hawks. But these vultures have a nifty ...

Soaring high overhead, riding spirals of warm air, that broad-winged bird may be an eagle, or a hawk. But if its wings are raised in a ‘V’ shape, and it wobbles from side to side as it circles ...

Turkey vultures may seem ominous, but they’re also wise and resourceful Seeing a vulture on the wing at a hundred yards is one thing, but face-to-face at about 30 feet is something else ...

After an absence from the local scene for many years, an unusual Long Island resident has slowly been making his presence felt recently- the turkey vulture, a large avian resembling an eagle or hawk.

In contrast to the odor-sensitive turkey vulture, black vultures find dead animals visually, and especially by searching for turkey vultures that have sniffed out a rotten meal.

The first Saturday in September is International Vulture Awareness Day. Two species of vulture live in Pennsylvania-the turkey vulture, and the black vulture. One black vulture, in particular, is a… ...