The California condor is the largest land bird in North ... lead poisoning from eating animals containing lead shots, poaching and habitat destruction. The captive condors began to be returned ...

Together—she as coordinator of the California Condor Conservation Program ... when populations were decimated, mainly from eating the meat of animals shot by hunters’ lead bullets.

Like other vultures, California condors have featherless heads and necks and eat carrion (decaying animal carcasses). California condors flap their wings as little as possible to conserve energy.

But rather than hunters, condors are scavengers. Gliding high above the ground, they use their keen eyesight to spot animal carcasses to eat. A lack of safe sources of food was just one of the many ...

California condors have been around for a long time ... They can go two weeks without eating and will eat a lot when they can, storing up to 3 pounds of meat in a bag-like attachment in their ...

GEORGE — A California condor whose hatching in Utah was considered ... But the birds can suffer poisoning from eating lead ammunition fragments while eating animals hunted with lead ammunition ...

Such as the dangers to carrion-eating condors of lead bullets ... The story of the California condor’s brush with extinction and its 40-year comeback is, like the birds themselves, charismatic ...

Thirty-five years ago, to save the native California condor, 22 of the large carrion eating birds were rounded up to help breed them in captivity and save the species. By tagging juvenile condors ...

This story was published Wednesday April 30, 2025. For centuries, the California condor was a prevalent species across North America. The large scavengers, which feature a nearly 10-foot wingspan ...

The California condor is one of the world’s largest birds ... habitat destruction and lead poisoning from animals eating shot with lead bullets. In the 1980s, wildlife officials captured the ...