Every summer and early fall, Mary Larson Bishop begins scanning the skies over her Sierra Foothills home outside Fresno, California. Bishop, who's 85, keeps track of when the big dark-brown birds with ...

BARABOO – The airspace over Devil's Lake State Park took on the appearance of a cyclone. This one, though, never touched ground and wasn't likely to be part of any weather report. In fact the spinning ...

Turkey vultures are not the loveliest birds. Most folks don't like them. And they are, shall we say, odiferous. But they're usually solitary or maybe in pairs, drifting slowly on the air currents, ...

A few of their more stomach-turning features are featherless heads to help them reach deep into carcasses, pooping onto their own legs and projectile vomiting onto any perceived threat. It’s precisely ...

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 what are those birds that are often seen soaring with ...

Multiple Types of Vultures Live in the U.S. Three types of vultures live in the United States—the turkey vulture, black vulture and California condor (which is a vulture bird, despite not having that ...