vultures

Vultures are huge birds known for feeding on the rotting, dead carcasses of animals. Vultures have many unique adaptations that allow them to thrive on their rotting diets, teeming with bacteria, maggots, and other gross by-products of the decaying corpse. Readers will be fascinated by these giant birds.

Presents an introduction to various species of vultures, describing their physical characteristics, feeding habits, behavior, and more.

Presents a children's book for early readers written in both English and Spanish that describes how vultures survive in the desert.

Introduces the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of vultures.

Discusses the characteristics and habits of the turkey buzzard.

Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and different species of these scavenger birds.

Describes the appearance, habitat, nesting, infancy, feeding, and importance to humans of this bird of prey.

Simple text and photographs depict the physical characteristics, behavior, diet, and environmental adaptations of vultures.

All the birds enjoy the song-like flute music of Jabuti, the tortoise, except Vulture who, jealous because he cannot sing, tricks Jabuti into riding his back toward a festival planned by the King of Heaven.