Over the past year, more than 2,700 vultures were driven out of Derry Township and 64 were killed as part of a growing effort to manage the birds’ increasing population and property damage.

The township will become a target site for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Service and Penn State University, who are teaming up for a national research study into vulture behavior and management, the USDA told PennLive.

Between Sept. 1, 2024, and Aug. 31, 2025, the USDA responded to significant vulture-related concerns in Derry Township, dispersing 2,745 vultures and killing 64 using shooting and trapping methods.

The township has been bedeviled for years with numerous reports of vultures in neighborhoods and the problems that come with them.

But the township isn’t alone, as black

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