vulture

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I finally looked up the species: It was a gallinazo, also known as a black vulture, and as much as we might ignore them, they’d been circling the whole time.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

Critics tend to debate whether she is a vulture or just losing her grasp on reality, but there’s no question she’s hit on a successful formula.

From Slate • Feb. 27, 2026

Meanwhile the narrator’s financially devious husband appears as a vulture with “the brooding eye, the blood-tipped beak, the flabby folds of flesh” of a bird of prey.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

Adam Bloch and Holly Cale, who run the The Horstmann Trust vulture conservation charity based in Carmarthenshire, were involved in efforts to stop the decline in Asia.

From BBC • Aug. 25, 2025

A thin and mournful-looking bird, somewhat like a small and underfed vulture in appearance, the Augurey is greenish black.

From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling