Another white-backed tunnels into a nostril ... With bulging crops, the vultures settle their heads atop folded wings and slide their nictitating membranes shut. No more sound, no more fury.

The vultures flapped wings that were wider than the men were ... The men swung nets over ten white-rumped vultures and gently nudged them into tall wooden boxes. As dust and feathers settled ...

Preening black vultures; a king vulture; an Egyptian white vulture with a rock for cracking ... but their heaviness makes active flying, with wings flapping, especially costly.

A white-backed vulture has scripted an extraordinary journey ... the bird hesitated briefly, then spread its wings wide and took flight - not just into the Madhya Pradesh skies, but on an epic ...

Well-preserved fossils of ancient large reptiles called pterosaurs have revealed that some species flew by flapping their wings, while others soared like vultures, according to a new study.

Panchkula: Of the eight white-backed vultures, who were bred in captivity and released in the wild in 2020 at the Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre (JCBC), Pinjore, four of the birds have ...

CHENNAI: A one-year-old captive-bred, juvenile white-rumped vulture, has taken a 4,000-km ... has been resting its wings at an abandoned agricultural plot in Aranthangi for the past four days.