By its simplest definition, a vulture is a bird of prey that feeds on carrion, which is the meat of dead animals. The media has often portrayed the vulture as a harbinger of death in books and films.

Zookeepers in Prague sometimes have to become puppeteers to save newborn birds rejected by their parents. This was the case ...

Vultures are a large bird with wide wings of prey known for scavenging on carrion (dead animals). They belong to a scientific ...

On a May morning in Pokhara, Nepal’s tourist town in the lap of the world-famous Annapurna range, 40-year-old Hemanta Dhakal ...

Cantabria has witnessed a historic milestone in conservation with the successful birth and survival of a ‘Quebrantahuesos’ ...

A baby vulture at a New York zoo is being fed not by another bird but by a hand puppet — a decades-old technique used to ensure the chick doesn’t identify too closely with its human handlers.

MAGALIESBURG, South Africa — Five vultures that were rescued and rehabilitated by a conservation group have been released back into the wild on a mountain range in South Africa. Two of the Cape ...