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 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.

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

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 ...

This brings the number of Red-headed Vulture to six in total that the project has worked with the local community to conserve in the area. The Mekong Flooded Forest is nationally and globally ...

A baby vulture at a New York zoo is being fed not by another bird but by a hand puppet — a decades-old technique used to ensure the chick doesn’t identify too closely with its human handlers.

Called zopilotes in Spanish, vultures are found all over the country, with less concentration in wooded areas at high altitudes. Costa Rica has three species: the king vulture, the red-headed vulture ...