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 ...

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 ...

Not all that long ago, the California condor was widely regarded as one of the nation's leading candidates for extinction. Today, thanks to captive breeding and reintroductions in the wild ...

A California condor hatched and raised at the Los Angeles Zoo has died from lead poisoning just months after being released ...

Between 2001 and 2023, of the 52 nesting condor pairs identified in the Central California flock (Big Sur, San Simeon and Pinnacles) five were “trios.” Four of those trios consisted of two ...

It’s another promising year to save critically endangered species, the Oregon said, after the first two California condor chicks of 2025 hatched last week. We're told the chicks are healthy and ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The first two California condor chicks of 2025 were hatched at the Oregon Zoo’s Clackamas conservation center, another important step in the process to save the ...