Curt Mykut, Ventana’s condor program coordinator, deftly grabs the bird’s beak while the other two crew members take hold of its body, compressing its wings and coupling its feet. Any slip ...

Six birds glide expertly on wind currents and thermals, conserving energy and traveling long distances with minimal wing ...

High above the rugged cliffs of California, a massive shadow glides silently, wings stretching nearly ten feet wide. This is ...

A retrofit added to wind turbine blades, inspired by the aerodynamic wings of a condor, can boost energy production by an average of 10%, according to a study. The efficiency of wind turbines is ...

Wings fanning out at the tips like splayed ... More than 60 million years ago, fossil records show, a condor-like bird existed in what is now Texas. By the 1600s, when Europeans arrived in North ...

Gymno comes from the Greek word gymnast, meaning "naked," and refers to the condor's featherless head; gyps is Greek for "vulture ... and a triangle-shaped white patch is visible on the underside of ...

The Andean condor is considered threatened but is in far better shape than its California cousin. Reintroduction programs are working to grow populations of these South American birds.

The California condor is considered critically endangered. It’s one of the largest flying birds in the world. While in the air, its wings can span nine feet long. In 1987, the population of ...

Between 2001 and 2023, of the 52 nesting condor pairs ... attached to its wing; hence behaviors, movements and nesting dynamics are readily documented. “We have birds up to 27 years old ...