In the last week, two particularly rare species have been seen in the UK. First, on the Isles of Scilly, off the Cornish coast, an Egyptian vulture was spotted flying and photographed perching in a ...

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 ...

It's not exactly a compliment to be called a vulture. They circle overhead when disaster or death is imminent. They scavenge and scrounge, feeding on things killed by nature or man, feasting on the ...

Archaeologists in Spain recently published findings revealing the remarkable contents of bearded vultures' nests – including traces of the Middle Ages. The results, published in the journal Ecology on ...