With threats of avian flu and lead poisoning, biologists are working overtime to care for a species that nearly went extinct.

The Andean condor is considered threatened but is in far better shape than its California cousin. Reintroduction programs are working to grow populations of these South American birds.

In this forest thick with trees up to 600 years old lives the southernmost population of the California condor (Gymnogyps ...

While there’s no living memory of condors among the Nimíipuu people, this largest land bird of North American—which are called qú?nes in the Nimíipuu language—appears in tribal origin ...

Even though the vaccine seems to be safe in black vultures, they wanted to confirm that it also is safe in condors. That’s why only three birds were vaccinated initially. According to an update ...

To assess the situation—and the bird’s survival prospects—specialists placed the California condor egg in a computed tomography (CT) machine, revealing a detailed, three-dimensional view of ...

Gymno comes from the Greek word gymnast, meaning "naked," and refers to the condor's featherless head; gyps is Greek for "vulture." DESCRIPTION: The largest flying land birds in North America, ...