We meet a few of the many people who are out to save the California condor, including a man who turned from crime to condors and a life mission to remove killer lead from this magnificent bird’s ...

He was found dazed in a mountain bush in 1967, hanging upside down with an injured wing and smelling like rotten fish — a rare male California condor, a member of a nearly extinct species. He ...

The majestically macabre California condor is the largest bird in North America, Mother Nature’s critically endangered cleanup crew, and a miracle conservation success story. After making a ...

The baby bird is a living rebuttal to criticisms that California's condor breeding program is never sustainable -- that it's just an expensive, ongoing and futile battle to sustain a dying species.

These birds are already compromised because of the lead exposure, she says. “That’s not what you want when they’re interacting with a virus on the landscape.” Condor conservationists feared the ...

Some effects of Arizona's Dragon Bravo Fire are clear, but what's happened to wildlife may not be known until the flames die ...

One bird studied covered more than 100 miles without flapping. ... The Andean condor has a wingspan stretching to 10 feet and weighs up to 33 pounds, making it the heaviest soaring bird alive today.

When you think of animals that build nests, your mind likely travels to birds. However, while it is true that birds are one ...