With threats of avian flu and lead poisoning, biologists are working overtime to care for a species that nearly went extinct.

They prefer to feast on large animals, wild or domestic ... and both parents must care for their young for a full year. The Andean condor is considered threatened but is in far better shape ...

Last week, in a press release, the Northern California Condor Restoration Program (NCCRP ... ammunition for dispatching wild or domesticated animals poses a serious threat to our new flock.

In this forest thick with trees up to 600 years old lives the southernmost population of the California condor (Gymnogyps ...

Last year was an exceptional milestone for the Central California condor flock, as nine wild chicks fledged from their parents’ nests, “the highest number of chicks (to fledge) in the program’s ...

“It’s incredibly important that justice is done when an endangered animal like this irreplaceable California condor is senselessly gunned down,” said Tara Zuardo, a senior advocate at the Center.

resulting in California's historic Ridley-Tree Condor Preservation Act, as well as a settlement with California's wildlife agencies eliminating lead ammunition for depredation hunting (the hunting of ...

Pigwidgeon nurtures his condor chick in a hollowed-out redwood ... ammunition,” reducing condors’ mortality after ingesting lead from animal carcasses. Lead poisoning has been linked to ...