Longtime Marin residents will remember the late Elizabeth Terwilliger’s famous mnemonic for telling the difference between a flying hawk and a flying turkey vulture: “V is for vulture!” A large ...

Turkey vultures never seem to hurry. They glide silently above us, drawing circles in the air, calligraphers with quill pens. They tip and turn up there in the wind, rarely flapping those long willowy ...

Vic, a turkey vulture that resides at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo, is training for the next In the Wings Bird Show, which takes place in the summer at the zoo. He has been training to make him more ...

A king vulture (Sarcoramphus papa) at the Johannesburg Zoo in South Africa during the public viewing event held to raise awareness about the threats faced by bird species in the country due to climate ...

A turkey vulture was recently re-sighted after being trapped and tagged more than a decade ago by Hawk Mountain Sanctuary with its tracking unit still working. “The solar power comes through the solar ...

Why it's awesome: These scavenger birds have an unexpected way of keeping predators away — by projectile vomiting stomach acid and semi-digested meat at their attackers. Turkey vultures live in a ...

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 from ...

From a Lehigh University report on the history of seeking and choosing its mascot, the Mountain Hawk: “For many years, Lehigh University students and student-athletes yearned for the development of a ...