Vultures make Honesdale look "like an Alfred Hitchcock movie," a resident says. They're also helpful by clearing dead animals ...

So, which is it? Just how true are those statements in the natural world where competition determines who gets to eat, and possibly even survive? Black vultures (Coragyps atratus) and turkey vultures ...

Black vultures seen near the Highlights parking ... Groups will drive away turkey vultures for food. Scavenges for scraps. May forage in family groups. Conservation status: Least concern.

Photo by Bob Gress Turkey vultures can soar, using the Earth’s thermals, for several hours without taking a wing beat. What look like one large nostril on their hooked beak, is actually a bony ...

The flight of the Turkey-Buzzard is graceful compared with that of the Black Vulture. It sails admirably either high or low, with its wings spread beyond the horizontal position, and their tips bent ...

They may appear to transform a neighborhood into what looks like an old, scary Alfred Hitchcock movie, but black vultures congregating in Honesdale and other places in the region in the last few years ...

USDA Wildlife Services suggests hanging a dead black vulture by it’s feet to use as an effigy to keep other vultures away. Black vultures are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty of 1918 ...