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 ...

A California condor hatched and raised at the Los Angeles Zoo has died from lead poisoning just months after being released into the wild, a Northern California native tribe has announced.

is the mother of the 1000th condor born since a breeding program was launched to save the critically endangered species. NPS The California condor is North America’s largest bird, a powerful (if ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Oregon Zoo is celebrating its first California condor egg of the season as it continues its efforts to reintroduce the critically endangered bird to the wild.

The California condor's population stooped dangerously low to 22 individuals in the 1980s, and scientists have been running a captive breeding program since then to save these birds. Frier/Nikon ...

The California condor, which is the largest North American land bird, nearly became extinct in the wild in the ’80s but has since been reintroduced in Arizona, Utah and California.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A record 17 California condor chicks hatched at the Los Angeles Zoo during this year’s breeding season for the endangered birds, officials announced Wednesday. All the ...