They can strip a carcass clean in minutes. Blood drips from a Rüppell’s vulture’s beak as it pauses mid-meal. The neck and head of Rüppell’s are sparsely feathered, the better to keep gore ...

it signals other vultures by wheeling in the sky. It can only eat animals that have soft tissue, as its beak is unable to rip through tough skin. Upon finding food, the white-backed vulture ...

A sympathetic butcher gave him three cow heads. 'I knew that king vultures can smell fresh meat from several kilometres away, but it was a great surprise to me when they turned up almost straight away ...

The Horstmann Vulture Trust runs one of the world's biggest ... they have beautiful courting where they bring their beaks together." Dr Neil Forbes, an avian veterinary consultant to the trust ...

Bearded vultures are on the International Union for ... They get their name from a distinctive tuft of feathers under their lower beak.