In a recent study, Dr. Weronika Tomczyk and her colleagues conducted a zooarchaeological and isotopic study of ancient Andean ...

The most recent annual reports on condor status from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tell a measured but generally positive story. After several tenuous years in the bowels of the San Diego Zoo and ...

GETTING IN AND OUT OF BIG SUR HAS BEEN ONE OF THE MAIN ISSUES. VO- THE LARGEST NORTH AMERICAN LAND BIRD .. THE CALIFORNIA CONDOR.. HAS ALSO BEEN FEELING THE EFFECTS FROM THE SLIP-OUT ON HIGHWAY ONE ...

Earlier this year, I wrote a column intended to appeal to a bird-curious, 8-year-old boy such as I once was: which are the fastest birds? It occurs to me now that there is another way of looking at ...

A new and growing threat is facing America’s largest bird, the California condor, a famed species that has been slowly recovering from the brink of extinction. A highly contagious strain of avian ...

Moir deftly chronicles the efforts of the dedicated biologists at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service who work to save the California condor from extinction. Remarkable birds with 10-foot wing spans and ...

Biologists treat sick and injured condors in a remote "hospital" in northern Arizona. The birds also receive vaccines to fight the avian flu. The condors ingest lead ammunition when they eat animal ...