From the mighty Andean condor to the record-breaking wandering albatross, let’s dive into the world of the largest flying birds—both today and throughout history. If there’s a bird that ...

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 ...

Not every bird of prey is massive ... (7 to 14.1 kg) Wingspan: 8 ft 2 in to 9 ft 10 in (2.49 to 3 m) The California Condor has the largest recorded body length of any on our birds of prey list.

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 ...

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 ...

A fast spreading form of bird flu is devastating colonies where almost half of the world’s wandering albatrosses breed on a remote island group halfway between South Africa and Antarctica. High ...