SCOTTSBURG, Ind. — Sometimes as many as a dozen black vultures circle above John Hardin's fields in southern Indiana’s Scott County, poised for when they spot a cold, weak or vulnerable cow. Unlike ...
It's not exactly a compliment to be called a vulture. They circle overhead when disaster or death is imminent. They scavenge and scrounge, feeding on things killed by nature or man, feasting on the ...
WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Ill. (WSIL) — A silent threat is circling overhead and it’s no longer just scavenging. Across Southern Illinois, farmers are sounding the alarm as black vultures grow in number and ...
The birds are widely reviled for their carrion-eating ways. But an evolutionary history of scavenging has forged a creative, cunning and wide-ranging mind. Lappet-faced vultures, Shredder and Kenya, ...