The crowd parts and surges in a black-and-brown wave of undulating ... Blood drips from a Rüppell’s vulture’s beak as it pauses mid-meal. The neck and head of Rüppell’s are sparsely ...

The black vulture, sometimes called the American black ... It can easily burrow into animal carcasses because of its short, hooked beak, and featherless, greyish-black head and neck.

it signals other vultures by wheeling in the sky. It can only eat animals that have soft tissue, as its beak is unable to rip through tough skin. Upon finding food, the white-backed vulture ...