An Andean condor being treated in Chile with lead in its blood, a pellet embedded in its skull and a satellite tracker from Argentina highlights the challenges of conserving this endangered bird ...

Working with Colombian biologists, the zoo so far has released 71 condors in seven paramos, the high altitude Andean ecosystems that are the birds’ natural habitat.

Andean condors spent just 1% of their time aloft flapping their wings, mostly during take-off. One bird studied covered more than 100 miles without flapping. Flight of the condor requires almost ...

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA - A colorful new bird has been discovered in a previously unexplored Andean cloud forest, conservation groups said Monday. The bright yellow and red-crowned Yariguies brush-finch ...

El condor pasa - and Andean glaciers aren't sticking around either The ice is vanishing in the world's longest continental mountain range, ... Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, ...

Three of her hatchlings have been released into their native range within Colombia and Venezuela. In 2022, she produced one of two of the only Andean condor eggs to hatch in North American zoos.

An Andean condor being treated in Chile with lead in its blood, a pellet embedded in its skull and a satellite tracker from Argentina highlights the challenges of conserving this endangered bird.

Reuters An endangered Andean condor sits inside an enclosure where it is being treated before its eventual re-release into the wild, in the Talagante's Rehabilitation Center for Birds of Prey, at ...

An Andean condor being treated in Chile with lead in its blood, a pellet embedded in its skull and a satellite tracker from Argentina highlights the challenges of conserving this endangered bird.