Both vulture species are listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List and are protected under India's 1972 Wildlife ...
It turns out the bearded vulture—also called the quebrantahuesos, or bonebreaker—isn’t just a carrion scavenger. It’s also a keen collector of human ephemera. This habit has given researchers in ...
Birds of a feather flock together, and in some cases, like with the Bearded Vultures, they nest together with generations of the species living in the same nests for centuries. Like many birds, the ...
An “extraordinary” stash of 600-year-old treasures has been discovered inside several vulture nests in Spain. Archaeologists examining the nests of the bearded vultures in the southern Spanish ...
Scientists in Spain analyzed the abandoned “ancient nests” of bone-eating vultures and found centuries-old artifacts, photos show. Photo from Sergio Couto via Margalida, Couto, Pinedo, Gil-Sánchez, ...
Tamil Nadu Forest Department begins establishing Vulture Safe Zones to protect endangered vultures, focusing on eliminating toxic NSAIDs.
If you liked this story, share it with other people. In rare good news for vultures in Africa, conservationists have confirmed the first-ever nest of a hooded vulture containing a chick in ...
A helicopter survey in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, found the region’s first sighting of a critically endangered species, photos show. Photo from Wildlife ACT Watching out the windows of a helicopter ...
In the cliffs of southern Spain sit “ancient nests” built by bone-eating vultures but left abandoned since the birds went locally extinct roughly a century ago. The “well-preserved” nests hid many ...