The California condor - the largest bird in North America - went extinct in the wild in 1987 . But a new bundle of joy has ...

A young California condor from the L.A. Zoo had been flying freely for only three months when he died after ingesting a lead pellet from an air gun.

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 ... humans, the biologists say. Now every condor ...

Captive breeding programs in California, Oregon and Idaho are essential to condor survival. This bird, too habituated to humans to be released ... the “$20 million baby,” since by then the ...

The following is a press release from the Yurok Tribe: In January, Northern California Condor Restoration Program ... have been less painful for us, the humans watching as he started to flourish ...

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 that had recently been released from ... “A natural death would have been less painful for us, the humans watching as he started to flourish in the wild,” said Yurok ...

Tragedy struck the Yurok tribe’s condor restoration efforts when one of the critically endangered birds succumbed to lead poisoning — an entirely preventable, human-caused threat — just ...