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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.
Conservation status. Endangered [1] Scientific classification ... Excidobates condor, the Cóndor poison frog, ... Threats The IUCN classifies ...
By July 2014, the condor population, including sites in California, Baja California and Arizona, has grown to 437. [17] There is a population of 232 wild birds and 205 in captivity. [ 17 ] Ventana Wildlife Society manages 34 free-flying condors, of which it has fledged 9.
It was a sunny morning when about 200 people trudged up a hill in Argentina's southern Patagonia region with a singular mission: free two Andean condors that had been born in captivity. The ...
Jul. 22—Sooner or later, a curious young California condor will fly too close and probably be killed by one of the giant rotors that generate electricity as they slice through the air in the ...
The California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) is a New World vulture and the largest North American land bird. It became extinct in the wild in 1987 when all remaining wild individuals were captured, but has since been reintroduced to northern Arizona and southern Utah (including the Grand Canyon area and Zion National Park), the coastal mountains of California, and northern Baja California ...
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature is the best known worldwide conservation status listing and ranking system. . Species are classified by the IUCN Red List into nine groups set through criteria such as rate of decline, population size, area of geographic distribution, and degree of population and distribution fragmenta
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