Its wings, which are white on top and brown on the bottom, can reach a span of up to 7.5 feet. Its mostly bald head helps the white-backed vulture regulate its body temperature during hot days and ...

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.

Bones, an African White-backed Vulture, escaped from Blackbrook Zoological Park, near Leek, a month ago. The bird, which stands 30in high, has been spotted in different areas of Staffordshire and ...

Of these, four - including long-billed, white-rumped, red-headed and Egyptian vultures - are seen in Karnataka ... slender neck bent and its wings in a half-open position, covering its head ...

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 ...

With most vulture species going extinct in the country, a rare white vulture was captured by ... distressed bird and carelessly spreading its wings in order to exhibit it in front of cameras.

CHENNAI: In a tragic incident, a one-year-old juvenile White-Rumped Vulture, a critically endangered ... for three weeks and hoped it would take wings. The bird was healthy, but due to human ...