Although New World vultures and Old World vultures share many resemblances, they are not very closely related. … See more

The New World vultures and condors found in warm and temperate areas of the Americas belong to the family Cathartidae. Recent DNA evidence suggests that they should be included within order Accipitriformes along with birds o… See more

Vultures are scavengers, meaning that they eat dead animals. Outside of the oceans, vultures are the only known obligate scavengers. They rarely attack healthy animals, but may kill the wounded or sick. When a car… See more

Vultures in south Asia, mainly in India and Nepal, have declined dramatically since the early 1990s. It has been found that this decline was caused by residues of the drug diclofenac in livestock carcasses. The governmen… See more

In Ancient Egyptian art, Nekhbet, a mythological goddess and patron of both the city of Nekheb and Upper Egypt was depicted as a vulture. Alan Gardiner identified the species that was used in divine icon… See more

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• Vulture videos on the Internet Bird Collection
• Ventana Wildlife Society Archived 2016-10-19 at the Wayback Machine
• Vulture observatory in Spain… See more