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Diclofenac failed very narrowly to wipe out all of Asia’s vultures, but another drug used to treat inflammation in overworked cattle threatens to kill the few left: Ketoprofen. Vultures feeding on the carcasses of recently-treated livestock suffer acute kidney failure within days of exposure. As Richard Cuthbert of the RSPB says, “Everyone…knows about the plight [...]

Today is International Vulture Awareness Day (IVAD), and - as I mentioned in an Aside yesterday - we along with raptor conservation and research organisations around the world will be promoting vultures, bloggers everywhere will be blogging about vultures, ‘vulture restaurants’ are throwing open their doors to both visiting vultures and visiting vulture-watchers, and birders [...]

Today is International Vulture Awareness Day 2009!  Rather than go into great detail about a variety of vultures as Mike did in his excellent post earlier today I figured I would track down five great quotes about Turkey Vultures, or, at least, five quotes that are either about Turkey Vultures or generically about vultures.  Though [...]

Vultures get a bad rap, often lumped in with gold diggers and attorneys (no offense to any gold digging attorneys out there) when they should be celebrated as vital links in almost every ecosystem. My experience of Old World vultures is limited but I know all about the family Catharidae, New World Vultures. While some [...]

and bluebirds.  The birds I can see around New York City are great but it’s a real bummer that those birds are virtually not findable in New York City.  And Pileated Woodpeckers?  The closest I’ll ever come to a Lord God Bird aren’t available to the avid birder in New York City either.  Where am [...]

A friend of mine just mailed me and asked me to blog about the latest research regarding the disappearance of India’s vultures. As it’s something I get particularly excised about I’m happy to do so. We’ve actually posted a number of times about the catastrophic decline in the population of India’s vultures - according to [...]