Manickam Tagore’s response came after Shashi Tharoor shared an image of a bird on X with the text, “Don’t ask permission to ...

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 ...

MDC knows which pair to go after because it said one of the birds has a missing primary feather, which is a distinct feature that can even be seen from the sky. The permit only applies to MDC, so ...

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 ...

They have bald heads so that when they feast on carcasses, blood and guts don't get trapped in their feathers. Like many other species of vulture, these birds feed on the remains of already dead ...

The humble turkey vulture plays a vital role in keeping the land clean and diseases at bay. ... Their red heads are featherless, which prevents offal from fouling head feathers.

A turkey vulture with silvery wingtips soars above the Fiscalini Ranch Preserve. Credit: Dan McCaslin / Noozhawk photo We studied the turkey vultures for at least 40 minutes since we passed where ...

We're bringing you a creature feature that's all about vulture culture. And a Casper woman who thinks buzzards are a lot cuter than some of us admit. The oh-so-cute turkey vulture ...

A vulture’s face seems to be without flesh, a skull protruding from a cloak of feathers. In flight, the featherless head appears small, often tucked back into that ruff, difficult to see.

Like the ruffle collars of Elizabethan England, the feathers of the turkey vulture end sharply at the neck, exposing a bald, red head and white beak. There’s a reason for this.

Here at the Nature Center, we’re thinking about a different type of turkey: the turkey vulture. If you’ve visited us before, you may have had the opportunity to glimpse Buzz, our resident ...

Lauren Pharr Parks, a vulture expert and forensic consultant, recalled the time she was radio-tagging turkey vultures as a graduate student in Louisiana. One bird bit down hard on her finger ...