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 ...
For the 25th anniversary of Something Wild, we share this archive episode from 2017, featuring former Outside/In host Sam Evans-Brown. Something Wild was in Sutton to track turkey vultures discovered ...
With summer just around the corner, I would like to highlight one of my favorite birds — the turkey vulture. For me, they conjure up hot summer days as I watch them ride and circle in the updrafts.
Morning is often about watching wildlife here on Mt. Hoo. It’s more unusual when the wildlife is watching me. Looking out the kitchen window while waiting for coffee to brew, there was a huge turkey ...
OK, you recognize those turkey vultures you see soaring overhead on a summer day — long wings, long tail, wings raised into a shallow “vee.” But what are those birds that are often seen soaring with ...
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 ...
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 ...
A vulture soars overhead as three others are perched on the hillside at Cambria's Fiscalini Ranch Preserve. Credit: Dan McCaslin / Noozhawk photo While backpacking decades ago in our Santa Barbara ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — An Advance/SILive.com reporter spotted turkey vultures gobbling up a dead opossum on Hylan Boulevard in early May. On the bridge spanning over Lemon Creek on Staten Island’s ...