Never stoops the soaring vulture — Vultures

"The [...] kills wild bulls in the foothills, and it kills the stags in the high mountains."

"I am ... a friend of the mountain buzzards and feeder of seacoast vultures."

"The Vulture is a Patient Bird Like a Hole in the Head An Ace Up My Sleeve Want to Stay Alive"

"Im not sure why many of us have a negative impression of s; perhaps its their naked heads, or perhaps we find their diet of the dead and desiccated unappealing. ... Instead of defending themselves with s or teeth, they vomit in the general direction of a threat, certainly not the most charming attribute. Above all, I think we dislike turkey vultures because they remind us of our own mortality and that life will continue after we die—and that, as with all animals, something will be waiting to consume our bodies."

"That wrath which hurl’d to Pluto’s gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore."

"The vultures that once wheeled over our heads must be buried with their prey."