Many people have probably seen birds picking up small pieces of man-made materials, like strips of a plastic bag or paper litter, and taking them into their nest. This behavior appears to be fairly ...

One of a pair of young bearded vultures, a species which disappeared from Germany but was later reintroduced, has been found dead. Female bearded vulture pair Wally and Bavaria were released into the ...

The black kites that swarm over Switzerland's Lake Geneva are a dime a dozen. Sadly, the same can’t be said for a fellow raptor on the other side of the country that has come close to the brink of ...

Scientists in Spain analyzed the abandoned “ancient nests” of bone-eating vultures and found centuries-old artifacts, photos show. Photo from Sergio Couto via Margalida, Couto, Pinedo, Gil-Sánchez, ...

It turns out the bearded vulture—also called the quebrantahuesos, or bonebreaker—isn’t just a carrion scavenger. It’s also a keen collector of human ephemera. This habit has given researchers in ...

Something amazing just happened in southern Spain, and it's giving people hope. For the first time in over 30 years, a bearded vulture chick has hatched in the wild in Andalusia. That may sound like a ...

Scientists found a 700-year-old sandal and other medieval objects preserved in bearded vulture nests, which act like natural ...

(CNN) — The bearded vulture, a large bird of prey with an unusual diet consisting primarily of bones, has long fascinated ornithologists. But now, a new study has shown why the bone-eating birds could ...

An “extraordinary” stash of 600-year-old treasures has been discovered inside several vulture nests in Spain. Archaeologists examining the nests of the bearded vultures in the southern Spanish ...