These scavenger birds have an unexpected way of keeping predators away — by projectile vomiting stomach acid and ...

Inevitably vultures also visit the livestock carcass, or they eat the poisoned lions themselves. Whatever the vector, the birds, which can feed in “wakes” of more than a hundred individuals ...

Harris’s Hawk are one of the birds who stay in the group to hunt or eat the fleshes of the dead animals. Eagles are the most furious hunters in the bird species and eat the maximum amount of dead ...

It is recognizable by its dark-brown face, long, white neck, and of course, a white backside that can only be seen when the bird ... by eating flesh before it rots, the vulture prevents dangerous ...

He pointed out that kea, sheep-eating parrots in New Zealand ... Bildstein, who recently authored a book about raptor behavior, said black vultures are very social birds that often feed in large ...

Vultures play a vital role in maintaining ecological balance by consuming carcasses and preventing disease spread. They are ...

The rare raptor, seen only a handful of times in the UK, was spotted at Moulton West Fen earlier An enormous bone-eating vulture ... where it went from here. The bird was first captured on ...

Enter the vultures, which can spot a carcass from more than 2 miles away. Scientists at the Leibniz Institute thought up the idea of combining the birds’ innate drive to locate carrion with the ...