Vultures, condors, buzzards: are these all names for the same type of bird? The difference in names between these three has been confusing people for quite some time. Thankfully, the similarities and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 the ...

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.

An adult black vulture (Coragyps atratus; left) and an adult turkey vulture (Cathartes aura; right). (Two photos merged.) The photos were taken about 10 minutes and one mile apart in Florida. (Credit: ...

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — In the great circle of life, and the eat-or-be-eaten story of nature’s food web, there is one species in Delaware that shows up at THE END. They are big, they are intimidating ...