Turkey Vultures perch on a tree Thursday in Haddam, Conn. The Turkey Vulture is a bird found throughout most of the Americas and is known in some North American regions as the Turkey Buzzard.

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

Researchers in Uganda say the country’s only nesting site of critically endangered Rüppell’s vultures is under threat from hunting, charcoal burning and farming. Two nesting colonies are built on ...

Scientists in Spain analyzed the abandoned “ancient nests” of bone-eating vultures and found centuries-old artifacts, photos show. Photo from Sergio Couto via Margalida, Couto, Pinedo, Gil-Sánchez, ...