The bearded vulture was hunted to extinction in Europe due to fears that it was attacking livestock and even children. It had ...

A rare bird made its way back home after getting some help from humankind. The bearded vulture is the rarest of its species and is found in parts of Turkey. One was discovered by villagers exhausted ...

Birds that build their nests with natural and artificial materials sometimes hold archaeological surprises for us. Certain ...

Legend holds that the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus, fearing a prophecy that a falling object would kill him, spent an inordinate amount of time out in open spaces. So naturally an eagle picked ...

Valnontey - Cogne ice climbing ban to protect Bearded Vulture A temporary ice climbing ban has been enacted in Valnontey (Cogne, Italy) to protect nesting bearded vulture. The Gran Paradiso National ...

Half a century after its extinction, Bulgaria celebrated the reintroduction of one of Europe’s rarest birds of prey — the Bearded Vulture. This is seen as a stepping stone to reconnecting them across ...

Decades ago, the biggest raptor in Europe—called the bearded vulture or the lammergeier—disappeared from the French Alps. But recently, the birds appeared again, flying high over the mountain range.

Bearded vultures soar together above the Alps, where they were wiped out a century ago. In a hidden valley in the French Alps, conservationists are quietly raising Europe’s largest bird of prey – the ...

A rare bearded vulture, believed by experts to be the first recorded in the U.K., has been spotted soaring over the Severn estuary—the longest river in Britain. If it is confirmed that the vulture, ...

Although there have already been birds that received strap-on artificial legs, scientists are now reporting the first successful integration of a prosthetic foot directly into a stork's residual leg ...