Lead poisoning is the number one threat to California condors. According to the Peregrine Fund, a raptor conservation organization, just under 50 percent of condor deaths since 1992 are linked to ...

A California condor has laid an egg in Mexico for the ... Wallace said. The 7-year-old female that laid the egg in Mexico, known as Condor 217, was born at the Los Angeles Zoo.

They collected the deceased female below her nest just 11 days ... The virus has not been detected in the other condor populations in California or Baja California, Mexico. Any additional live ...

Traveler (No. 171), the oldest female condor in the Central California flock, underwent successful emergency surgery to remove lead fragments from her intestinal tract, and now flies free.

Big Sur California condor 204 (male, Amigo, head bowed) courts 646 (female, Kodama), while 470 (male, Fuego) looks on in a trio courtship. Tim Huntington On Nov. 6 the “2024 Rookie Virtual ...

The Los Angeles Zoo is making strides in saving the California condor, America's largest flying ... chicks to be raised at the same time by a female. This method also prevents human involvement ...

On May 9, a baby California condor hatched at Liberty Wildlife ... According to Mosby, the team was excited to find out she was female because 11 of the 21 condors that have died due to bird ...

California condors disappeared from the area ... according to a Yurok Tribe Instagram post. A7 is a female condor who was born in June 2022 and is one of two planned for release in November ...

The California condor is a critically endangered species ... Couples mate for life, and the female lays a single egg every other year. To rebuild the population as quickly as possible, staff ...

In the mountains above Fillmore, a 5-month-old condor is the only wild chick that survived in California’s southern flock this season. A nest camera caught its first moments after hatching and ...

Three California condors have died from avian ... the National Park Service announced Friday. A sick female condor suspected of having lead poisoning was found dead on March 20 and testing showed ...