Description: 22 to 24 inches long. "Very different shape from Turkey Vulture: stocky, short-tailed, with bigger head, broad ...

Turkey vultures live in a range of habitats, including subtropical forests, shrublands and deserts. They have bald heads so that when they feast on carcasses, blood and guts don't get trapped in ...

The city of Leesburg is taking an interesting approach to get rid of turkey vultures causing an issue at their water tower.

The most widespread vulture in North America, the turkey vulture is locally called “buzzard” in many areas. A turkey vulture standing on the ground can, at a distance, resemble a wild turkey.

While fishing off the Florida Keys near Islamorada on Jan. 19, they found a pile of around 150 vultures in the water that had apparently fallen out of the sky and into the Gulf. Most of the turkey ...

It seems a lot of people are only interested in the glamorous or top-tier species of mammals and birds. For example, no one seems interested in mice, voles or shrews. You don’t see many ...

U.S. populations of both turkey and black vultures also plummeted during the 20th century, but they’ve rebounded since the 1970s when the use of DDT was discontinued — the chemical pesticide had led ...

Vultures play a critical role in the environment, cleaning up carcasses and acting as nature’s garbagemen. However, black vultures (Cathartes aura) are unique among New World vultures in that they are ...