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 ...

The southern African population has dropped to fewer than 400 birds, mainly due to by poisoning, power lines and development ...

A hidden camera observes a bearded vulture resting on an exposed rocky ledge high in its mountain habitat. From this elevated ...

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Birds of a feather flock together, and in some cases, like with the Bearded Vultures, they nest together with generations of the species living in the same nests for centuries. Like many birds, the ...

Bearded vultures aren't just skilled scavengers—they're also accidental historians. A new study in Ecology reveals that the nests of these rare birds in Spain have acted as natural time capsules, ...

Scientists in Spain analyzed the abandoned “ancient nests” of bone-eating vultures and found centuries-old artifacts, photos show. Photo from Sergio Couto via Margalida, Couto, Pinedo, Gil-Sánchez, ...

The post Bearded Vultures Are Naturally White Before They Dye Themselves appeared first on A-Z Animals. Bearded vultures have beautiful orange feathers. However, the birds aren't born with vibrant ...

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The black kites that swarm over Switzerland's Lake Geneva are a dime a dozen. Sadly, the same can’t be said for a fellow raptor on the other side of the country that has come close to the brink of ...

The bearded vulture, a large bird of prey with an unusual diet consisting primarily of bones, has long fascinated ornithologists. But now, a new study has shown why the bone-eating birds could be even ...

Coprolites (fossil feces) from around 30,000 years ago have been used to identify the presence of bearded vultures (Gypaetus barbatus) at the Paleolithic site of Lagar Velho (Portugal). A comparison ...