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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.
Manickam Tagore’s response came after Shashi Tharoor shared an image of a bird on X with the text, “Don’t ask permission to ...
Tagores post came after Tharoor on Wednesday shared a message on X with a picture of a bird. The caption on the picture read, ...
Connecticut boasts many gorgeous and interesting hikes beyond the most popular destinations that become crowded every spring.
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.) ...