Perpetually cast as the ugly villain of the alpine pastures, it has long been reviled by many as a predatory ... and Egyptian vultures go after insects, fish, reptiles and even smaller birds. • In ...

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 ...

Education and captive breeding are two of the main prongs of multifaceted programmes to save the critically endangered bearded vulture. The birds live among the crags of the Drakensberg/Maluti ...

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 ...

DEHRADUN: For the first time in Uttarakhand, four species of vultures will be studied closely by attaching satellite tags to them. This predator-category bird is on the verge of extinction.