(Another adult king vulture is housed next to the baby, “for socialization,” says Cerbini. But she’s “not an experienced mother,” he adds, and therefore “would be unlikely to display ...

The baby bird is the first king vulture chick hatched at the zoo in three decades WCS photographer, Terria Clay The Bronx Zoo in New York is trying a playful method to get its newest king vulture ...

Read full article ... that looks like a vulture’s face and beak on their hand, which is used to grab morsels of food and deliver them to the chick’s mouth. An adult king vulture is placed ...

For the first time in three decades, a king vulture chick has hatched at the Bronx Zoo in New York.The staff at the zoo are using a unique method to hand-raise the rare baby bird.In a social media ...

A baby vulture at a New York zoo is being fed not by another bird but by a hand puppet — a decades-old technique used to ensure the chick doesn’t identify too closely with its human handlers.