Black vultures and California condors depend more on keen eyesight to locate dinner. Although it may seem a little unsettling that these birds eat dead animals, without them our ecosystem would be ...

Inevitably vultures also visit the livestock carcass, or they eat the poisoned lions themselves. Whatever the vector, the birds, which can feed in “wakes” of more than a hundred individuals ...

The Bearded Vulture is a unique bird that specialises in eating bone marrow by breaking bones and swallowing them whole ...

Part of a hiking trail near Fisherman's Park in Harford County was shut down after officials said they found dead vultures ...

He pointed out that kea, sheep-eating parrots in New Zealand ... Bildstein, who recently authored a book about raptor behavior, said black vultures are very social birds that often feed in large ...

It is recognizable by its dark-brown face, long, white neck, and of course, a white backside that can only be seen when the bird ... by eating flesh before it rots, the vulture prevents dangerous ...

Oaks checked his vulture samples. All 28 birds with gout now tested positive ... Though Pakistanis, most of whom are Muslim, do eat beef, they rarely eat buffalo and never eat donkey.

While vultures benefit the ecosystem by cleaning up and eating dead animals ... of life for area residents,” she said. “The birds’ feces and vomit can accumulate rapidly.

and the birds seem to know when to take that risk. Roland doesn’t consider vultures to be pests. They do good things, the USDA notes in its literature, like eating dead deer and other carrion ...