The California condor, North America’s largest flying land bird, crashed to as few as 22 wild individuals in the early 1980s.

California condors have made one of the most remarkable wildlife comebacks in U.S. history. The population of the critically endangered scavengers, once reduced to just 26 birds in the wild in 1987, ...

California condor populations faced severe decline due to human pressures and habitat loss. Early conservation efforts ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MARBLE CANYON — A 6-year-old California condor hopped from an open crate and trotted a half-dozen steps toward the cliff, ...

The spring morning is cool and bright in the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir National Park in Baja California, Mexico, as a bird takes to the skies. Its 9.8-foot wingspan casts a looming silhouette against ...

When it comes to conserving the California condor, progress is precarious. One wild pair recently laid the first egg in northern California for the first time in a century, and there are now more than ...

The stench of rotting calf carcasses hangs thick in the air, and bugs are buzzing about, attracted by the carrion laid out to lure seven California condors in from the wild. From the Big Sur coast, it ...

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An egg laid in the wild by two free-flying Pacific Northwest condors appears to have failed, but Yurok biologists are excited by the first parenting attempt. Tiana Williams-Claussen, director for the ...

MARBLE CANYON — A 6-year-old California condor hopped from an open crate and trotted a half-dozen steps toward the cliff, spreading its two-tone wings in the winter sun before launching over the upper ...

That's a lot of chances to breed if he finds a mate for life, even if condor pairs at best raise one chick every two years. "This is management in action," said Tim Hauck, who leads the condor program ...