In May 1835 in Willamette Falls, Oregon, an eager young Philadelphia naturalist named John Kirk Townsend collected a female California condor. It’s one of the oldest specimens among the ...

Big Sur California condor 204 (male, Amigo, head bowed) courts 646 (female, Kodama), while 470 (male, Fuego) looks on in a trio courtship. tim huntington How are bird flu vaccinations going among ...

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 ...

Zoos in the state work closely with the US Fish and Wildlife Service as part of the California Condor Recovery Program after the species almost went extinct in the 80s. Now every condor chick born ...

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 ...

The nest of the California condor is, on average ... The pliable nature of these materials allows for the female to shape it as she pleases. Regardless of shape or structure, the nests of birds ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 males and a female ...