Condors can soar 150 miles in a day on their giant wings. The birds often fly for hours at a time with hardly a flap of their wings C. Parish / The Peregrine Fund It was early winter, the end of ...

California condors, on the other hand, have more rounded talons and beaks that are adapted for tearing skin and eating carrion. However, if a carcass is near a California condor’s nest, the condors ...

The California condor story is a quintessential feel-good tale of an extraordinary species that was at the doorstep of extinction in 1982 when just 22 of the enormous scavengers - largest land birds ...

Topa Topa has contributed to the production of roughly 300 birds over his lifetime, with 94 flying free in the wild and another 100 in the recovery program as mentors or breeding condors.

Ventana Wildlife Society condor biologists Darren Gross and Kara Fadden attach tags to juvenile condors in preparation for their release into the wild in November 2024. Meredith Evans On Nov. 6, six ...

The elusive and illustrious California condor is making a major comeback in the Bay Area, stretching its wings in areas where the continent’s largest bird has not been seen for more than a century. In ...

Biologists monitoring California condors near Redwood National and State Parks suspect at least one breeding pair may be tending an egg, which would represent the first nesting attempt in Northern ...

One of the L.A. Zoo’s most legendary residents is celebrating his 60th birthday. That’s right: Topa Topa the California condor, who has been key to the critically endangered species’ repopulation, has ...

A California condor who was central to the species’ recovery after near extinction is being celebrated at the Los Angeles Zoo. Topa Topa arrived at the LA Zoo in 1967 after he was found weak and ...

The following is a press release from the Yurok Tribe: In January, Northern California Condor Restoration Program (NCCRP) condor B7, Pey-noh-pey-o-wok’ (I am friend or kind or good natured) was found ...