It was a young black vulture, probably on the hunt for some mice. These birds normally nest farther south, but they were spotted nesting in Vermont for the first time in 2020.

With their fearsome talons, acid poo and a penchant for rotting carcasses, the vulture has long been shouldered with associations of death, and dishonour. This taboo often puts them bottom of the ...

Conservationist Sacha Dench visits three different vulture species, each with an extraordinary story of persecution and survival. In India, vulture populations collapsed by 99.9%, the sharpest ...

Thus, in the 1970s, biologists from the Frankfurt Zoological Society and elsewhere decided to try to reestablish a bearded vulture population in the Alps by introducing captive-bred birds into the ...