“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 ...

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

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 ...

Thanks to those efforts, more than 200 condors flew freely in California and Arizona by 2013. But recovery is still in jeopardy: A significant percentage of all released condors have died or been ...

The Peregrine Fund. 3 Finkelstein et al. 2011. Lead Poisoning from Ingested Ammunition is Precluding Recovery of the Endangered California Condor. Presentation at Society of Toxicology annual meeting, ...

The effects of acute mortality due to lead poisoning of wildlife should not be dismissed either. The largest impediment to the recovery of the California condor in the wild is arguably death by lead ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...