Andean condors live from Venezuela to Tierra del Fuego and have a wingspan about 12 inches larger than that of California condors. Their mission here was to help to consolidate a social group and aid ...

Joy Benedict speaks with the team from the San Diego Zoo who are working to save the rare California Condor population.

Captured at the zoo's in-house Paul Harter Veterinary Medical Center, the CT scan reassured veterinarians that the chick was doing just fine. San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Critically endangered ...

But now at nearly 17 months old, she is one of four of the giant endangered birds who will get to stretch their wings in the wild as part of a release this weekend near the Grand Canyon. There is no ...

A California condor chick rests in a clear container lined with paper at the L.A. Zoo. L.A. Zoo Weighing 17 to 25 pounds and possessing a wingspan of up to 9.5 feet, California condors are the largest ...

Six condors in the Central California flock have perished in 2025, but those losses, however tragic, will soon be superseded as 13 juveniles—seven raised in captivity in the Los Angeles Zoo and six ...

IT MAY HAVE been the smelliest job in conservation. Whoever drew the short straw sat in a hole in the dirt underneath a carcass. Then they waited for a California condor to come and have a snack.

Ten juvenile California condors — fully vaccinated now against the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) — will be released in cohorts of five from their large holding pen in the San Simeon ...

On Nov. 6, six captive-raised juvenile California condors will be released into the wild from the remote, rugged mountains above San Simeon. The new cohort (each about a year and a half old) arrived ...

VERMILLION CLIFFS NAT'L MONUMENT -- By all accounts, Milagra the "miracle" California condor shouldn't be alive today. But now at nearly 17 months old, she is one of three of the giant endangered ...

When it comes to nature’s pecking order, the strongest animals usually get to eat first. The powerful golden eagle, with its razor-sharp talons, usually dominates at the front of the line. But what ...