New research reveals why the endangered birds remain at risk years after California banned lead ammunition. Exclusive to KQED.

Condor #1061 had already beaten the stiff odds. Long one of the world’s most endangered species, there are fewer than 400 California condors in the wild of North America. And when avian flu hit the ...

Off to the rugged Sespe Valley in the wild back country of California’s Ventura County one day last week motored a Los Angeles Times newshawk, a photographer and Sidney B. Peyton, Fillmore citrus ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Oregon Zoo announced the first California condor to hatch at its conservation center is turning 20 years old on Thursday, celebrating a milestone for a species once facing ...

Best wishes are in order for the 10 California condor chicks hatched this year at the Los Angeles Zoo. The zoo’s healthy hatchlings in the 2025 condor breeding season will be candidates for release ...

A new method of rearing California condors at the Los Angeles Zoo has resulted in a record-breaking 17 chicks hatched this year, the zoo announced Wednesday. All of the newborn birds will eventually ...

MESA, Arizona — By all accounts, Milagra the "miracle" California condor shouldn’t be alive today. But now at nearly 17 months old, she is one of four of the giant endangered birds who will get to ...

MONTEZUMA COUNTY, Colo. — Colorado Parks and Wildlife said on Wednesday they are investigating after a critically endangered California condor was shot in southwestern Colorado in late March. CPW said ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The California condor has returned to Oregon, almost a century after the largest bird native to North America disappeared from the Northwest. The journals of Lewis and Clark recorded ...

Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...

The Peregrine Fund brought five California condors to the Vermilion Cliffs to release into the wild. The birds brought to 88 the number of wild birds in Arizona and Utah. The condors were hatched and ...