Birthday Celebrations for «Lord Richard»: Lindsay Wildlife Museum is hosting two days of celebrations honoring the 40th birthday of Lord Richard, the turkey
vulture who greets visitors from her
aviary at the Museum's entrance.
The New York Times reports how two new
aviaries for
vultures, brought to the brink of extinction by exposure to veterinary drugs, are being built, so that the ancient tradition of leaving corpses in so - called Towers of Silence to be picked apart by the giant scavenging birds can resume.