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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you're an indoor pet, it must be a little bit strange to see animals of your same species just... living outside. They live ...

Turkey vultures have a major PR problem. Many people view them as black-feathered villains with menacing bone-colored beaks that skulk on tree branches and circle the skies waiting for animals and ...

Vultures are often vilified simply because of how they look. They are seen as unclean and unnecessary creatures, which has ...

Love 'em or not, the vulture bird is an essential part of our ecosystem. Find out why vultures don't sing, how long they live ...

Seen as harbingers of death and disease, staples of horror films and Halloween decor, vultures actually play an important ...

While vultures are usually depicted as creepy, Lake Superior Zoo zookeeper Kelli Carroll has a serious soft spot for Morticia the turkey vulture. “She is my favorite animal in the entire zoo,” Kelli ...

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.

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 ...

I was driving near Bloomville in Delaware County a week or so ago and saw some large black birds along the side of State Route 10. Initially I thought they were just wild turkeys like I see everywhere ...

Biologist Bracken Brown couldn’t believe his eyes when he spotted the seemingly out-of-place bird soaring through the sky. “I always enjoy doing roost counts, watching a column of vultures catch ...

In humankind’s ongoing war against rats, rodents are far from the only casualties. Over the last few years, a common class of chemicals known as anticoagulant rodenticides has come under fire for its ...