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 ...

Conservationists hope the Vulture Interactions photography contest can help improve the public’s perception of the birds.

A Turkey vulture drifting high overhead can look almost effortless, its broad wings held in a shallow V as it circles on ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. More than 700 wild black vultures in Georgia are the latest victims of ...

The two lappet-faced vultures had been together for just a few months, yet the massive birds, with their watchful, featherless gargoyle faces and their dark mottled body plumage so plush that it looks ...

RADFORD - The vultures have flown out of Radford. Actually, the hundreds of black and turkey vultures that have spent the last two winters roosting next door to a residential neighborhood were ...

Over 100 black vultures were found dead on the Sussex Branch Trail in Lafayette, Sussex County, New Jersey. The deaths have apparently been occurring since early August, and avian influenza (also ...

Bird flu has killed hundreds of wild black vultures at a Georgia sanctuary that houses more than 1,500 other animals. No other birds at Noah's Ark have tested positive for or shown symptoms of the ...