With summer just around the corner, I would like to highlight one of my favorite birds — the turkey vulture. For me, they conjure up hot summer days as I watch them ride and circle in the updrafts.

Every summer and early fall, Mary Larson Bishop begins scanning the skies over her Sierra Foothills home outside Fresno, California. Bishop, who's 85, keeps track of when the big dark-brown birds with ...

Most of us have a favorite species of bird based on their song, color or habits. There is a fascinating bird that will never win a beauty contest, yet it plays an important role in our environment.

They can smell a dead animal eight miles away. When stirring in the chill of dawn at their overnight roost, they face the sunrise, spread their wings and catch the sun’s warmth. When too hot in the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — An Advance/SILive.com reporter spotted turkey vultures gobbling up a dead opossum on Hylan Boulevard in early May. On the bridge spanning over Lemon Creek on Staten Island’s ...

My wife and I were driving on a rural road in Bibb County in Middle Georgia the other day when I spied a dark mass on the grassy roadside ahead of us. “Vultures,” I said. “Ugh,” said my wife. I slowed ...

JERSEYVILLE, Ill. -- As a road warrior, Ivan Beard sees his fair share of roadkill. "And where there's dead meat," the Jerseyville railroad worker has discovered, "there's usually a big, ugly bird." ...

I think turkey vultures are just plain awesome. They get a bad rap — they’re haunting to look at and they have some truly gross habits — but they actually perform a much-needed service. They clear out ...

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