My wife and I were driving on a rural road in Bibb County in Middle Georgia the other day when I spied a dark mass on the grassy roadside ahead of us. “Vultures,” I said. “Ugh,” said my wife. I slowed ...

MAYVILLE, Wis. (AP) - The brooding vultures perch high in treetops and on tombstones, turning the landscape of the normally serene Graceland Cemetery into a scene reminiscent of an Edgar Allan Poe ...

Summer has faded and autumn has returned to the Tehachapi Valley, bringing with it the annual spectacle of thousands upon ...

Every summer and early fall, Mary Larson Bishop begins scanning the skies over her Sierra Foothills home outside Fresno, California. Bishop, who's 85, keeps track of when the big dark-brown birds with ...

MEQUON - As I climbed the stairs inside the 125-year-old silo, it was clear I wasn't alone. Occupants in the vertical structure heard my footfalls and sounded their alarms. The first I encountered was ...

They’re back — the harbingers of death. The sky above me is black with vultures riding the thermals. It’s unnerving. With their keen eyesight, my husband and I joke the vultures are watching us in our ...

Turkey vulture Ms. V welcomed visitors to Lake Metroparks’ Kevin P. Clinton Wildlife Center and featured in wildlife education programs during her nearly 39-year stay at the facility. That stay ended ...

A king vulture (Sarcoramphus papa) at the Johannesburg Zoo in South Africa during the public viewing event held to raise awareness about the threats faced by bird species in the country due to climate ...

There is an avian flu alert from the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (VDWR) concerning wild birds in Virginia, and ...

Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory in Duluth, Minn. is one of the nation's top spots to view migrating raptors and other birds in ...