California Condor

California condors don’t have an easy time raising their chicks. The eggs take two months to hatch, and it’s a full year before the baby birds can live on their own. But now scientists know condor mothers can skip a step in the baby-making process if they want to. They don’t have to mate with a male to lay a healthy egg.

The longtime head of the California condor recovery program, Chris Parish, has been named as the new president and CEO of the Peregrine Fund.Parish began…

The endangered California condor could return to the Pacific Northwest for the first time in 100 years. The San Francisco Chronicle says the U.S. Fish and…

Wildlife biologists say a record number of wild California condor chicks have been documented this year in the Southwest with the discovery earlier this…

Officials in Utah say a California Condor chick has left its nest and made its first attempt at flight at Zion National Park.Visitors last week saw the…

Arizona wildlife officials are urging hunters to use non-lead ammunition to protect California condors.The Arizona Game and Fish Department issued a…

A baby California condor has been spotted in far northern Arizona.The Peregrine Fund says one of its biologists confirmed the nestling last week at…

A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit challenging the use of lead ammunition in a northern Arizona forest.The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals…

Arizona's Game and Fish Department is inviting the public to witness the release of endangered California Condors at Vermilion Cliffs National Monument…

An effort to bring one of the world's largest birds back from the brink of extinction is expanding after northern Arizona and southern Utah found some…