By sunrise the loner is dead, draped in a roiling scrum of vultures ... of the Egyptian and bearded vulture are nearly extinct. Vultures and other scavenging birds, says Darcy Ogada, assistant ...

Why it's awesome: These scavenger birds have an unexpected way of keeping predators away — by projectile vomiting stomach acid and semi-digested meat at their attackers. Turkey vultures live in ...

Thus, in the 1970s, biologists from the Frankfurt Zoological Society and elsewhere decided to try to reestablish a bearded vulture population in the Alps by introducing captive-bred birds into the ...

He knows the smell of blood from a sheep or cow mauled by a predator. He also knows how ... are classified as endangered, one (Bearded Vulture) is near threatened and Palm Nut Vulture is ...

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