California condor

Science

Avian flu has killed 3 California condors in northern Arizona

1:36am April 08, 2023

by The Associated Press

Authorities are trying to determine what killed five others in the flock. The California condor population fell to near extinction in the '70s, but the total wild population now numbers more than 300.

A juvenile California condor flies from a shelf to a branch in the condor reintroduction pen of the Redwood National Park near Orick, Calif., on April 12.

National
Environment

Condors are soaring again over Northern California's coastal redwoods

5:55pm May 03, 2022

by The Associated Press

The endangered California condor, the largest native North American bird, returned to soar the skies over the state's far northern coast redwood forests for the first time in more than a century.