Tag: California condor

An analysis of liver tissue samples from dead California condors reveals that a large portion of the giant raptors have consumed carcasses that contain second generation anticoagulant rodenticides. These potentially...

Watch out, golden eagles—a new scavenger is moving into southern Utah, and it might affect your meal ticket. California condors were extirpated from Utah, and from most of their range...

Lead poisoning has contributed to an unusually high number of California condor mortalities this year. The Ventana Wildlife Society, a nonprofit organization involved in restoring the endangered species, reports that...

As wildlife biologists help return California condors to the wild, researchers found the recovering population has surprisingly high genetic diversity, which offers some good news for a species that has...

A wind energy company is working with federal wildlife managers to breed California condors as a proactive step to supplement any potential losses of the giant birds from turbine collisions....

The California condor will return to the Pacific Northwest for the first time in a century. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service and the Yurok Tribe plan...

A female condor in a redwood forest burned in last year’s devastating Dolan Fire has laid an egg in the top of a charred redwood tree, offering hope for the...

Usually the web cams at the Ventana Wildlife Society’s condor sanctuary near Big Sur, California, capture the activities of endangered California condors (Gymnogyps californianus). But when the Dolan Fire, one...

A California condor chick that hatched in a nest on a cliff in Zion National Park became a milestone for the efforts to recover the endangered species. It received the...

California condors (Gymnogyps californianus), which were first listed as endangered in 1967, under the precursor to the Endangered Species Act, are slated to be reintroduced for the first time in...