Vultures on the Rise in your Neighborhood? No Need to Move Out!

A seemingly peculiar but increasingly common event has been playing out around the island over the past few months, with large numbers of vultures congregating in trees and on rooftops. Here at the Linda Loring Nature Foundation, we have been asked questions such as, ‘why are these birds on top of my house when they never were before’, ‘why are they being observed in such high numbers’, and ‘are they negatively impacting other species’?