The California condor is the largest land bird in North America. Its impressive wingspan is 9.5 feet across, and it can weigh up to 25 pounds. Once widespread across the United States, Canada, and ...

1K is pictured at Zion National Park in 2020. The California condor, which was the 1,000th chick to hatch from a species recovery program, died from lead poisoning while in Arizona earlier this ...

One of 1K’s siblings, California condor 1111 became the second wild-fledged condor in Zion National Park. In January 2024, she was trapped and tested with other condors during routine trapping ...

A California condor, known as Pey-noh-pey-o-wok', has died from lead poisoning just months after being released into the wild as part of the Yurok Tribe's Northern California Condor Restoration ...

The California condor, North America’s largest bird, has taken flight again. It’s a feat made possible by well-established collaborations between the US and Mexico, ...

By all accounts, Milagra the “miracle” California condor shouldn’t be alive today. But now at nearly 17 months old, she is one of four of the giant endangered birds who will get to stretch ...

The initiative is part of the California Condor Recovery Program (CCRP), a collaboration that started in the 1980s between tribes, state and local agencies, nonprofit organizations, and zoos.

An ALERTCalifornia camera on Whitaker Middle Peak captures a female California condor soaking in the sun July 1.

In 1987, the California condor population had declined to just 22 birds in the wild. A federally led recovery program has relied on captive breeding and release of condors.

The California condor was included on the first list of endangered species published by the federal government. Jak Wonderly. The leaden sky above Big Sur looks as uninviting as cold oatmeal, the ...