EMINENCE, Ky. — Allan Bryant scans the sky as he watches over a minutes-old calf huddled under a tree line with its mother. After a few failed tries, the calf stands on wobbly legs for the first time, ...

Black vultures have increased in population in the Midwest over the last several decades, causing financial problems for ...

ST. LOUIS -- Farmers and ranchers in parts of the Midwest are fending off a new menace: federally protected black vultures, which swoop down and peck newborn calves and other small animals to death.

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 ...

Vultures have long evoked images of death, hovering over ailing animals and feeding off their rotting corpses. But the near extinction of the scavenger birds in India during the 1990s led to the ...

A black vulture, top right, flies Monday, Sept. 29, 2025, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel) ...