Tens of thousands of turkey vultures glide over the Detroit River, offering citizen scientists a surprising highlight of hawk ...

Laurie Rott took these photos of a group of adult turkey vultures she spotted in a neighbor’s oak tree in Golden Hills, when ...

Turkey vultures tilt or rock their six-foot wingspan as they fly with their wings in a V pattern. The scavengers with the bald bright-red heads are not uncommon in Minnesota, where they nest in ...

Turkey vultures soar with wingtips pointed up in a shallow V, while black vultures fly higher overhead, hoping to crash any potential roadkill party. Learn all about bird wings and flight feathers ...

Turkey vultures are large birds, but their 6-foot wingspan belies their body weight of only 3 to 4 pounds. They can consume an astonishing amount of food — pounds of meat per day.

OK, you recognize those turkey vultures you see soaring overhead on a summer day — long wings, long tail, wings raised into a shallow “vee.” ...

But my partner began to wonder if these were cormorants (many of these diving birds were around) or the much-loathed turkey vultures (cathartes aura) whose wing-spans can reach 5½ feet.

To scan wide distances, turkey vultures rise 10,000 feet or more into the air, their long wings forming a distinctive V-shaped silhouette against the sky. As if filled by helium, the birds use ...

“You can easily tell a turkey vulture apart from like an eagle or a black vulture by noticing the V-shape that they hold their wings, with their wings kind of angled up instead of totally flat ...

Turkey vultures deter predators by projectile vomiting gastric juices as acidic as battery acid that burns their attacker's skin and eyes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

The world's 23 vulture species, including turkey vultures, black vultures and California condors (which are endangered) here in the U.S., have sharp vision to help them spot carrion from high above.

A turkey vulture nest this year in an old silo in Mequon highlights the general increase and adaptability of the species in Wisconsin. advertisement Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ...