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.

Wildfires have torn through a Turkish holiday destination - causing chaos for tourists as hundreds of passengers were left ...

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

A half-built nursing home that became a notorious eyesore in Pierce Township after its former owner went to prison for bank ...

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.