Indeed, 116 is the highest number of the critically endangered condors — which can fly 150 miles in a day and reach 10,000 ...

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’s ...

SAN DIEGO — Scientists with the San Diego Zoo’s conservation wing proudly unveiled an “extraordinary discovery” this week: California condors can lay eggs and produce chicks without having sex. The ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A California condor chick is about to hatch at San Diego Zoo Safari Park, and a webcam is offering a birds-eye view. Zoo officials said Thursday that the egg has begun to pip — the ...

FILE - Condor chick LA1123, hatched Sunday April, 30, waits for it's feeding in a temperature controlled enclosure at the Los Angeles Zoo on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. A record 17 California condor chicks ...

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Another California condor chick hatched in the wild this year has been spotted in a nest cave deep in Grand Canyon National Park. Biologists from the Peregrine ...

But now at nearly 17 months old, she is one of three of the giant endangered birds who got to stretch their wings in the wild as part of a release this weekend near the Grand Canyon. Even after the ...

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Veterinarians at the Oakland Zoo are treating a California condor named Miracle for lead poisoning. Miracle is the first wild chick born in over a century in Big Sur as part of the ...

The California condor once tip-toed dangerously close to extinction, with only 22 left in the wild in 1982. Now, the rebounding species is marking a millenary milestone. In a victory for conservation, ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A 3-month-old California condor chick that died last month was killed by West Nile virus, federal environmental officials said Tuesday. Scientists attempted to retrieve the chick ...