vulture

In a 2024 exposé on Bowlero’s rise, Amos Barshad introduced a now-familiar category of villain — the private-equity vulture — as more than the average mercenary buying up distressed properties and selling off their parts.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026

As Scott Weidensaul tells us, poisoning has led to seven of Africa’s 10 vulture species being listed as endangered or critically endangered, with populations down as much as 97%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 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

He places the stones on Tom’s lap, Ms. Kessler tells us, “and walks slowly around the room, waving a vulture feather in the air.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

Twenty yards up the field, a single vulture hovered over the third spot he’d sighted.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

Vulture populations are booming across the U.S., according to Hannah Partridge, who works for the National Audubon Society and studied vultures for years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

Just being cheap isn’t enough to attract hot money — there also has to be some belief that Wall Street vultures are circling.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026

In between are Egyptian vultures, which use rocks to crack open ostrich eggs—genuine tool use—but when presented with rocks and chicken eggs simply cannot figure out what to do, suggesting a rather circumscribed “intelligence.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

The vultures share their new home with a resident pair of black kites, who live alongside them just as they would in the wild.

From BBC ● May 8, 2026

He picked up a stone and threw it at the vultures.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie