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 ...

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

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.

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.

A record 17 California condor chicks have hatched during this year’s breeding season for the endangered birds at the Los Angeles Zoo. Skip to main content. Open Main Menu Navigation.

This California condor egg from the bird egg collections we care for was found in a tree hollow in Monterey County, California, in 1859. The California condor type specimen, which is part of the bird ...