Longtime Marin residents will remember the late Elizabeth Terwilliger’s famous mnemonic for telling the difference between a flying hawk and a flying turkey vulture: “V is for vulture!” A large ...

With Thanksgiving coming up, people have birds on their mind. But today we’ll talk about the type of turkey in our skies year-round, and you wouldn’t want one near your table. People will often ...

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, Cathartes aura, are fairly common in the Berkshires, joined of late by the black vulture, Coragyps atratus, a very similar, but slightly smaller bird with a grey-black head. Both ...

Often referred to as ‘nature’s clean-up crew’, vultures have developed an association with death due to their scavenging ...

When most people think about wildlife rehabilitation, they picture fluffy baby birds, fuzzy bunnies, and stilt-legged fawns. Creatures that society deems ugly or less desirable, such as vultures, ...