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Condor Temporal range: Late Pliocene – Holocene Andean condor soaring over southern Peru's Colca Canyon Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Accipitriformes Family: Cathartidae Genera Vultur Gymnogyps Condor is the common name for two species of New World vultures, each in a monotypic genus. The name derives from the Quechua kuntur ...
Andean condor in Peru There is a dark red caruncle (or comb) on the top of the head of the adult male. The Andean condor was described by Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae and retains its original binomial name of Vultur gryphus. [3]
An Andean condor being treated in Chile with lead in its blood, a pellet embedded in its skull and a satellite tracker from Argentina highlights the challenges of conserving this endangered bird.
In 2005, there were 127 Californian condors in the wild. As of October 31, 2009 there were 180 birds in the wild. [53] The Andean condor is vulnerable. [23] The American black vulture, turkey vulture, lesser yellow-headed vulture, and greater yellow-headed vulture are listed as species of Least Concern by the IUCN Red List. The king vulture is ...
California condors have been listed on the Endangered Species Act since 1967. ... the number of condors in the wild has risen from about 23 birds in the 1980s to more than 300 today. Of those ...
The majority of the species were considered endangered in the 1970s and 1980s when they “were in very low numbers or likely already extinct at the time of listing,” the release said.
The South American cougar (Puma concolor concolor), also known as the Andean mountain lion [4] or puma, [5] is a cougar subspecies occurring in northern and western South America, from Colombia and Venezuela to Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile. [6] It is the nominate subspecies.
Nearly 125,000 acres were burned, 12 condors died and one firefighter was seriously injured in the blaze. Man sentenced to 24 years for setting Big Sur wildfire that killed 12 endangered condors ...