Captive breeding programs in California, Oregon and Idaho are essential to condor survival. This bird, too habituated to humans to be released to the wild ... the size of chickens but still ...

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 ... the last condor in the wild in 1987 and ...

A cherished icon of the West, the prehistoric-looking California condor remains one of the world's most endangered species. North America's largest avian narrowly escaped extinction in the mid-1980s ...

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 ...

A California condor hatched and raised at the Los Angeles Zoo has died from lead poisoning just months after being released ...