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AT SUNSET THE WILDEBEEST SEEMS DOOMED ... bouncing and tumbling in their haste to join the mob. A Rüppell’s vulture lays claim to a dead zebra in Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park, while ...
Unlike some other types of birds, black vulture populations have been increasing in recent years. "They do provide valuable ecological services, but they may roost in large numbers from a few to ...
The Turkey Vulture Relocation effort planned in McPherson, the “Bird Banger,” has been postponed. As of Friday night, it’s ...
Scientists have finally solved the mystery of how the fossilized feathers of a 30,000-year-old vulture were preserved with such unprecedented levels of detail. The griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus ...
An analysis of a 30,000-year-old fossil vulture from Central Italy has revealed for the first time that volcanic rock can preserve microscopic details in feathers—the first ever record of such a ...
Conservationist Sacha Dench visits three different vulture species, each with an extraordinary story of persecution and survival. In India, vulture populations collapsed by 99.9%, the sharpest ...