Decades after its release into the wild, a super-ageing, bone-crunching vulture called Balthazar reveals a major conservation ...

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 ...

Biologist Bracken Brown couldn’t believe his eyes when he spotted the seemingly out-of-place bird soaring through the sky. “I always enjoy doing roost counts, watching a column of vultures catch ...

Vultures, condors, buzzards: are these all names for the same type of bird? The difference in names between these three has been confusing people for quite some time. Thankfully, the similarities and ...

Turkey vultures have a major PR problem. Many people view them as black-feathered villains with menacing bone-colored beaks that skulk on tree branches and circle the skies waiting for animals and ...

Every summer and early fall, Mary Larson Bishop begins scanning the skies over her Sierra Foothills home outside Fresno, California. Bishop, who's 85, keeps track of when the big dark-brown birds with ...

Populations of Rüppell’s vultures have fallen by more than 90% over the past four decades. Knowing exactly where these ...