One of a pair of young bearded vultures, a species which disappeared from Germany but was later reintroduced, has been found dead. Female bearded vulture pair Wally and Bavaria were released into the ...

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 ...

In the cliffs of southern Spain sit “ancient nests” built by bone-eating vultures but left abandoned since the birds went locally extinct roughly a century ago. The “well-preserved” nests hid many ...

It turns out the bearded vulture—also called the quebrantahuesos, or bonebreaker—isn’t just a carrion scavenger. It’s also a keen collector of human ephemera. This habit has given researchers in ...

Something amazing just happened in southern Spain, and it's giving people hope. For the first time in over 30 years, a bearded vulture chick has hatched in the wild in Andalusia. That may sound like a ...

This is the bearded vulture. It lives in the mountains so it can look down on us all. It smashes bones for a living. It encourages its children to fight to the death. And… it dyes its feathers. Why?

A rare bearded vulture, believed by experts to be the first recorded in the U.K., has been spotted soaring over the Severn estuary—the longest river in Britain. If it is confirmed that the vulture, ...

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Legend holds that the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus, fearing a prophecy that a falling object would kill him, spent an inordinate amount of time out in open spaces. So naturally an eagle picked ...

Bearded vultures soar together above the Alps, where they were wiped out a century ago. In a hidden valley in the French Alps, conservationists are quietly raising Europe’s largest bird of prey – the ...

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, ...