“Necropsy results confirmed what the team had suspected as the cause of death: lead poisoning. 1K died just short of his fifth birthday.” According to the Peregrine Fund, California Condors ar ...

In this forest thick with trees up to 600 years old lives the southernmost population of the California condor (Gymnogyps ...

Last week, in a press release, the Northern California Condor Restoration Program (NCCRP) re-released condor A9 back into the wild after the two-and-a-half-year-old bird spent 22 days at the ...

Last year was an exceptional milestone for the Central California condor flock, as nine wild chicks fledged from their ...

Scientific studies provide overwhelming evidence that lead poisoning in condors comes from ammunition fragments in carcasses and gut piles hunters leave behind in the condor range. Since 1992, at ...

Two University of Southern California professors have found that Southern California may have dodged the worst of a hidden danger of the recent fires: lead exposure. Lead’s former prevalence in ...

Scavenger birds like the California condor and the bald eagle who feed on carcasses are also at particular risk of lead poisoning because the bullet fragments into hundreds of tiny pieces when it ...

Dave Wessner is a virologist who covers infectious diseases. In their continuing efforts to protect California condors from avian influenza, conservation biologists have moved one step closer.

Lead poisoning has been linked to the mortality of condors for years, leading to Assembly Bill 711, which sought to ban lead ammunition for hunting in California. It went into law on July 1 ...