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’s ...

Optimism is soaring within the California Condor Recovery Program (CCRP) after the announcement on Wednesday that the Los Angeles Zoo successfully hatched 10 chicks this season. All 10 of the condors ...

Two species that couldn’t be more different have had similarly good news this week. First we go to Utah’s Zion National Park, where a pair of California condors (Gymnogyps californianus) successfully ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A California condor chick is about to hatch at San Diego Zoo Safari Park, and a webcam is offering a birds-eye view. Zoo officials said Thursday that the egg has begun to pip — the ...

Last month, biologists at Zion National Park in Utah captured video of a pair of endangered California condors in their nest with a newly-laid egg. Rangers said at the time that the park had never ...

The California condor once tip-toed dangerously close to extinction, with only 22 left in the wild in 1982. Now, the rebounding species is marking a millenary milestone. In a victory for conservation, ...

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Wildlife biologists say a record number of wild California condor chicks have been documented this year in the U.S. Southwest with the discovery earlier this ...

The elusive and illustrious California condor is making a major comeback in the Bay Area, stretching its wings in areas where the continent’s largest bird has not been seen for more than a century. In ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A 3-month-old California condor chick that died last month was killed by West Nile virus, federal environmental officials said Tuesday. Scientists attempted to retrieve the chick ...

SAN DIEGO — Scientists with the San Diego Zoo’s conservation wing proudly unveiled an “extraordinary discovery” this week: California condors can lay eggs and produce chicks without having sex. The ...

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Veterinarians at the Oakland Zoo are treating a California condor named Miracle for lead poisoning. Miracle is the first wild chick born in over a century in Big Sur as part of the ...

The L.A. Zoo has welcomed a new California condor chick into the world. Named #LA1720 for now, the hatchling broke out of its shell late on Thursday night and appears to be doing well. Little ...