Vultures are often seen as some of nature’s most unappealing creatures. With their wrinkled skin, large, hunched bodies, and bald heads, they are the complete opposite of beauty and glamor.

Four times a day, Thai conservationist Watchiradol Phangpanya puts on a black, long-sleeved shirt, red gloves, and a red balaclava, hoping to imitate an endangered red-headed vulture feeding its baby.

The bearded vulture, or lammergeier, is one intense bird. It lives on a steady diet of bones and dyes its feathers blood red, giving it the reputation of one of the most metal birds in the animal ...

These vultures dip their heads in red soil and swipe from side to side, carefully dyeing their head, neck and chest red. It is a well-studied population, ...

The king vulture of Central and South America, for example — its head and neck so brilliantly festooned with patches of red, blue, yellow, purple and orange that some consider it the reigning ...

They’re big, heavy, ungainly birds with bald, red heads and a black plumage. They communicate with hisses and, when threatened, will vomit in the general direction of the threat.

Black vultures are primarily scavengers but will eat live animals. There are largely two types of vultures in South Florida — turkey vultures, which have red heads, and black vultures. Although ...