The most widespread vulture in North America, the turkey vulture is locally called “buzzard” in many areas. A turkey vulture standing on the ground can, at a distance, resemble a wild turkey.

Turkey vultures live in a range of habitats, including subtropical forests, shrublands and deserts. They have bald heads so that when they feast on carcasses, blood and guts don't get trapped in ...

Vultures make Honesdale look "like an Alfred Hitchcock movie," a resident says. They're also helpful by clearing dead animals ...

A Florida fishing guide and his clients found around 150 vultures that were stranded in the Gulf of Mexico after falling out ...

As news emerged that the collision between the American Airlines jetliner and the U.S. Army helicopter in Washington, D.C., had claimed the lives of 14 members of the close-knit figure skating ...

ISLAMORADA, Fla. – It was raining turkey vultures over the Gulf of Mexico 35 miles off Islamorada, with land nowhere in sight. Charter captain Brandon Storin was guiding some sport fishermen when they ...

Vultures play a critical role in the environment, cleaning up carcasses and acting as nature’s garbagemen. However, black vultures (Cathartes aura) are unique among New World vultures in that they are ...

Description: 22 to 24 inches long. "Very different shape from Turkey Vulture: stocky, short-tailed, with bigger head, broad wings.... Whitish patch near wingtips shows up in flight." Sounds ...