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.

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.