Vultures make Honesdale look "like an Alfred Hitchcock movie," a resident says. They're also helpful by clearing dead animals ...

vultures prevent tens of millions of metric tons of carbon emissions each year by eating carcasses before they decompose and release greenhouse gases. Unlike other birds, turkey vultures lay their ...

1. The bald neck and bare heads of vultures keep their feathers from sticking to blood while eating corpses. 2. During hot days, vultures engage in a process called urohydrosis. They urinate on their ...

Inevitably vultures also visit the livestock carcass, or they eat the poisoned lions themselves. Whatever the vector, the birds, which can feed in “wakes” of more than a hundred individuals ...

It is recognizable by its dark-brown face, long, white neck, and of course, a white backside that can only be seen when the bird ... by eating flesh before it rots, the vulture prevents dangerous ...

He pointed out that kea, sheep-eating parrots in New Zealand, also chew on cars’ window seals, and he’s observed the same behavior among striated caracaras in the Falkland Islands. Bildstein, who ...