Turkey Vultures Have a Gross Defense Method. It’s best to stay on a turkey vulture’s good side. If distressed or annoyed, this bird vomits its food up to 10 feet away in a tactic that deters ...

It's not exactly a compliment to be called a vulture. They circle overhead when disaster or death is imminent. They scavenge and scrounge, feeding on things killed by nature or man, feasting on ...

Why it's awesome: These scavenger birds have an unexpected way of keeping predators away — by projectile vomiting stomach acid and semi-digested meat at their attackers. Turkey vultures live in ...

4. Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017) . Vultures are almost always always cast as “bad guys” in movies, a fact that definitely prompts no self-reflection for us here at Vulture, no sir.

Nepali began feeding vultures because the birds were dying from what they scavenged themselves. ... I saw acres of rotting meat and bones under a desert sun. I saw no Gyps vultures. Instead, ...

12 more birds — including endangered vultures — found dead from poisoning in Negev. ... south of Avdat in the Negev Desert. ... Vultures play an essential role as nature’s cleaners.

Unfortunately, Old-World Vultures (the 16 vulture species that occur across Africa and Eurasia) are also one of the world’s most threatened bird groups. Sharp declines were first recorded in the ...

Once upon a time, the vulture was an abundant and ubiquitous bird in India. The scavenging birds hovered over sprawling landfills, looking for cattle carcasses. Sometimes they would alarm pilots ...

Like many other species of vulture, these birds feed on the remains of already dead animals, rather than killing prey themselves. Despite their large size — with wingspans reaching around 5.5 ...