vulture

Related to vulture: Egyptian vulture, eagle, turkey vulture

culture vulture

Someone who has an avid interest in the arts. Helen is quite the culture vulture. She attends the theater at least once a month.
See also: culture, vulture
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

culture vulture

someone whom one considers to be excessively interested in the (classical) arts. She won't go to a funny film. She's a real culture vulture. They watch only highbrow television. They're culture vultures.
See also: culture, vulture
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

culture vulture

An individual with a consuming or excessive interest in the arts. For example, A relentless culture vulture, she dragged her children to every museum in town. This slangy term may have been originated by Ogden Nash, who wrote: "There is a vulture Who circles above The carcass of culture" ( Free Wheeling, 1931). [1940s]
See also: culture, vulture
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

culture vulture

a person who is very interested in the arts, especially to an obsessive degree.
The image of a vulture here is of a greedy and often undiscriminating eater.
See also: culture, vulture
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

culture-vulture

1. n. an avid supporter of the arts. Many culture-vultures seem to be long on enthusiasm and short on taste.
2. n. someone who exploits the arts for monetary gain. Some culture-vultures are throwing a wine and cheese party on behalf of some of the young dolts they have grubstaked.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • culture vulture
  • culture-vulture
  • go native
  • study animal
  • Yankee go home
  • weeaboo
  • the outside world
  • the white man's burden
  • good old boy
  • good ole boy
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"We have organised many shows and sessions like powerpoint presentations, film shows, interaction session, rallies to save our eco-friendly bird vulture in this programme," said Animesh Bose, Programme coordinator, HNAF.
Bou Vorsak, Cambodia Programme Manager at Birdlife International, said the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries gave notice of the measures to stop the import, distribution, supply and use of diclofenac in treating any kind of animal that could impact vultures.
The 537 vultures and two tawny eagles were found dead in one of the country's protected wildlife management areas (WMA) in the eastern Central District.
Three young Egyptian vultures, raised in zoos in Zlin, Schonbrunn and Jerez, were released to the Eastern Rhodopes on Thursday, the press office of the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds announced.
It shows a vulture fund pointing out that they don't have the details of any guarantees or protections on the mortgage they've bought at a knockdown price.
The total population of the white-rumped vulture in suitable habitats across Bangladesh shows that vulture population drastically declined from an estimated 1972 in 2008-2009 to only 816 in 2011-2012.
According to him, all vultures had fed on a poisoned spotted hyena at the periphery of the Reserve.
A biology team from the University of Barcelona (UB) has marked a number of Egyptian vultures with GPS emitters in order to conduct tracking of their movements, their use of space, and the migration process.
Mahmood Akhtar Cheema, Country Representative IUCN Pakistan gave a brief overview of the vulture conservation project.
Talking to reporter, he said project jointly undertaken by Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company (SECM), Thar Foundation and IUCN for Conservation of Nature aims to help contain steep decline in the population of vulture that consequently had been casting a negative impact on the ecosystem they flourish on.
Both of those efforts helped save the California condor, a vulture native to the western U.S.
LAHORE:Keeping in view the success of World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan's (WWF-P) restoration project for the population of the Oriental white-backed vulture, also known as the white-rumped vulture, Punjab Wildlife and Parks Department is all set to launch a captive breeding programme, which it hopes, will contribute to the recovery of the iconic birds, said project director Hassan Ali Sukhera on Friday.
The Ghana Wildlife Society (GWS) has expressed worry about the dwindling population of vultures in Ghana, attributing it to trade in vulture parts for traditional medicine and magical powers (juju).
Mr Ali said the vulture breeding farm established in 2007 was a joint venture of World Wide Fund for Nature and Punjab Wildlife Department.
A torrent of softball-size hail killed an endangered vulture and a duck while injuring 14 people at a Colorado zoo on Tuesday.