Ken Ostrand spotted the bird he and his wife named Chester in his backyard. (Julia Wall for The Assembly) This story originally published online at The Assembly. The birds arrive early in the morning ...

A baby vulture at a New York zoo is being fed not by another bird but by a hand puppet — a decades-old technique used to ensure the chick doesn’t identify too closely with its human handlers. King ...

A baby king vulture has a puppet for a parent at the Bronx Zoo. A 2-month-old king vulture chick is growing up at the Bronx Zoo in New York. As far as it knows, it has a doting vulture parent that ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — A baby vulture at a New York ...