Numerous birds, including turkey vultures, hawks, and eagles, were on display with handlers for the public to learn about.

Nature’s least loved animals are dying fast. This could make the environment stinky and pathogens unstoppable.

Families and bird enthusiasts gathered at Second Nature at Reads Creek for a Birds of Prey Meet and Greet on Sunday.

More than one-third of species that eat some amount of carrion are threatened or declining, a new analysis finds, and that ...

A turkey vulture's stomach acid is extremely acidic, with a pH close to zero, allowing them to eat carcasses infected with diseases like anthrax or rabies without contracting the disease.

Scavengers often get a bad rap — hyena giggles are nefarious, crows gather in “murders” and the naked necks of vultures speak for themselves. But the bodies of the dead don’t just disappear.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — An Advance/SILive.com reporter spotted turkey vultures gobbling up a dead opossum on Hylan Boulevard in early May. On the bridge spanning over Lemon Creek on Staten Island ...

The Vulture has been a fixture at Bloomsday at the top of Doomsday Hill since 1987. Unlike real turkey vultures, there have been no reports of the Bloomsday Vulture eating any carrion. (COLIN MULVANY) ...

Turkey vultures have many gross habits. They defend themselves by vomiting powerful stomach acids, and they pee and defecate on their feet to cool themselves down. (It’s called urohidrosis.) ...

Birds Turkey vultures in California are testing positive for rat poison Despite statewide restrictions on the deadly poisons, new research shows they’re still infiltrating the food web.

Turkey vultures defecate and urinate on their own feet to cool them down in hot weather. Because the vultures' digestive juices kill bacteria, pooping on their legs also works as an antiseptic ...

Turkey vultures and other vultures spend hours preening and bathing in clear water. The vultures vomit foul-smelling partially digested food on or near predators, which drives them off.