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 ...
A vulture soars overhead as three others are perched on the hillside at Cambria's Fiscalini Ranch Preserve. Credit: Dan McCaslin / Noozhawk photo While backpacking decades ago in our Santa Barbara ...
Every summer and early fall, Mary Larson Bishop begins scanning the skies over her Sierra Foothills home outside Fresno, California. Bishop, who's 85, keeps track of when the big dark-brown birds with ...