"vultures" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to a group of birds, or more metaphorically, to refer to people who take advantage of an opportunity or situation. Example sentence: Vultures circled overhead, looking for their next meal.
Argentina's president, Cristina Fernandez, who has said Argentina cannot afford to pay in full the hedge funds while also making payments to other lenders, has called the funds "vultures".
In the mountains are eagles and vultures, including the condor, while the beech forests teem with treecreepers, woodpeckers and even hummingbirds.
It could be less, but not much, for birds of prey like vultures to swoop in and out.
The animal cargo, worth $113,715, reportedly included: two lappet-faced vultures, two serval cats, two impalas, two black verreaux's eagles, three elands, four giraffes, four ground hornbill, five spring hares, six oryx, seven kori bustard, 10 dik-dik, 20 Grant's gazelle, 68 Thomson's gazelle, and a secretary bird.
Ukraine was a modern Prometheus, chained to the ground, while vultures of all geopolitical persuasions companionably pecked at its liver.
The hedge funds, described by debt campaigners as vultures, will be in prime position to call in the $1.6bn owed.
He needs to at least bring back the belief that the club are still going in the right direction to ward off the vultures, Bavarian and otherwise.
"Maybe they're vultures," I joke as we stagger on under the burning sun – at one point it does reach 34C.
It proved toxic for the vultures feeding on bovine carcases.
The Towers of Silence in Mumbai (and places such as Hyderabad) have found an alternative in powerful solar concentrators which desiccate the corpse admittedly not in the half-hour that a hungry flock of vultures accomplished, but which still keep to Zarathushtra's injunction not to defile the elements.
Weavers' dwellings were overgrown, the thatch alive with birds, snakes and insects, while roussettes – bats small and multi-coloured as butterflies – flew in and out of earth-mounds that had been homes; hunched vultures surveyed tracts of land in which the human voice was stilled.
