Condor 868 – the young, pink-tagged bird on the right – hatched in captivity in 2017 ... Infiniumguy/ Shutterstock However, to this day, their biggest threat is lead poisoning caused by eating food ...

Birds of prey refer to over 560 species of predatory birds that soar above the rest near the top of the food chain. While ...

Tragedy struck the Yurok tribe’s condor restoration efforts when one ... released from the Los Angeles Zoo into the wild. The ...

open image in gallery A photo of Pey-noh-pey-o-wok, a California condor that died after ingesting a lead pellet (Yurok Tribe) The bird was 18 ... As the biggest threat to condors, lead is ...

With each scan, he meticulously looks for metal fragments that could be slowly poisoning the bird from the inside. The condor has likely ingested lead bullet fragments embedded in the remains of a ...

Tragedy struck the Yurok tribe’s condor restoration efforts when one ... released from the Los Angeles Zoo into the wild. The bird, Pey-noh-pey-o-wok, had been flying freely for only three ...