Vultures gathered around a carcass are called a wake

Lots and lots of people believe that vultures don't hunt live animals, but in my experience, they absolutely do.

Other people say, "yeah, they're opportunistic hunters and will grab whatever is small enough, but mostly they eat carcasses." But with my eyes I've seen plenty of buzzards eating carcasses and only a few vultures ever do so. I have seen them go after chickens and heard numerous cases of them going after weak newborn Livestock.

They usually have 5-7 birds working together, but sometimes there is much more, however when they are truly hunting in formation I've only ever seen them do this with 7 or less in a hunting group. I believe it's called a committee.

They have a scout of 1-3 birds and they roam a grid like area at about medium height. They won't cast their shadow at this height. They will meet up and switch grids sometimes. When they've spotted prey they will shoot up high into the air this alerts the others. Then the ones that were very high come down but they stay on the other side of the area where the prey is between the scouts and them.

They fly very very low to meet up with the scouts who are doing a low pass. The low pass will leave a shadow so if they can't snag the prey safely here they will just make it run.... but the other vultures using vegetation as cover will be ready to snag whatever it is the scouts are chasing.

People say they don't have the talon strength or the beak shape to do this usually and they're just not correct. Keep your eyes up if you've got pets or Livestock cuz these birds are hungry right now and they absolutely work together.