Tag Archives: Vultures

International Vulture Awareness Day

What comes to mind when you hear the word vulture?  For most people words like dirty, disgusting, ugly, scavenger, pest, etc…  When I think of vultures I think of words like graceful, amazing, beneficial, necessary and mostly, endangered.  This difference … Continue reading

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Unintended Consequences: Asian Vulture Populations Brought to the Brink of Extinction

Vultures.  If you had asked me ten years ago what I thought about vultures, I would have told you “not very much.”  I’d see turkey vultures (Cathartes auara) soaring through the Maryland sky– but beyond that, I didn’t give them … Continue reading

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