Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Most commercial airplanes cruise at 30,000 to 40,000 ...

Kurt Leuschner, a professor of natural resources at College of the Desert in Palm Desert, will speak on “Turkey Vultures and Bird Migration” when the Redlands Horticultural and Improvement Society ...

Allan Bryant scans the sky as he watches over a minutes-old calf huddled under a tree line with its mother. After a few failed tries, the calf stands on wobbly legs for the first time, looking to ...

The birds are widely reviled for their carrion-eating ways. But an evolutionary history of scavenging has forged a creative, cunning and wide-ranging mind. Lappet-faced vultures, Shredder and Kenya, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's not exactly a compliment to be called a vulture. They circle overhead when disaster or death is imminent. They scavenge and ...

With so many threats to animal populations and habitats around the world, it sometimes feels like all we hear is bad news. It is easy to forget that dedicated conservationists and scientists are ...

Turkey vultures never seem to hurry. They glide silently above us, drawing circles in the air, calligraphers with quill pens. They tip and turn up there in the wind, rarely flapping those long willowy ...

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...

Many people have probably seen birds picking up small pieces of man-made materials, like strips of a plastic bag or paper litter, and taking them into their nest. This behavior appears to be fairly ...

EMINENCE, Ky. (AP) — Allan Bryant scans the sky as he watches over a minutes-old calf huddled under a tree line with its mother. After a few failed tries, the calf stands on wobbly legs for the first ...