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 ...

T he first California condor to reach Yurok ancestral land in over a century arrived by plane and car in late March of 2022. The small plane that carried Condor 746 had a rough landing, and the ...

The California condor once tip-toed dangerously close to extinction, with only 22 left in the wild in 1982. Now, the rebounding species is marking a millenary milestone. In a victory for ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The endangered California condor could return to the Pacific Northwest for the first time in 100 years. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to allow the release of the ...

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 ...

In this Dec. 28, 2015 photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a California condor designated AC-4, whose captive breeding helped save the species, is re-branded as California condor ...

The living condor population has now risen above 500, with more than half of those birds successfully living free in the wild in parts of California, Utah, Arizona and northern Mexico.

One of the most endangered birds in the world, the California condor, has crept back from the brink of extinction through a strenuous three-decade conservation effort. But conservationists say the ...

The California condor is the largest flying bird in North America, with wings that can stretch nearly 10 feet from tip to tip, and can fly as high as 15,000 feet.

Unlike California’s well-established John Muir and Pacific Crest Trails, the Condor Trail is a thru-hiking “route,” meaning its course exists—as a continuous thread of trails and roads and ...