Captive breeding programs in California, Oregon and Idaho are essential ... which decimated the carrion-eating condor’s main food source—marine mammal carcasses. By the mid-20th century ...

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 ...

The Yurok tribe says the condor died of lead poisoning after eating a bullet ... The Yurok Tribe of Northern California say that, according to a pathology report, a California condor's cause ...

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 ...

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 ...