SANTIAGO, July 23 (Reuters) - 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 ...

A rare Andean Condor chick, a downy, grey-white baby bird the size of a grapefruit, hatched Friday at the National Aviary. This is the first Andean Condor chick to hatch at the National Aviary since ...

The enormous vulture has declined due to poisonings and land development, but rescue efforts are helping it slowly make a comeback. Tupun Catu, a rehabilitated juvenile condor, spreads his wings to ...

Andean Condors (Vultur gryphus) are a Near Threatened species that was formerly distributed along the entire length of the Andes from western Venezuela to Tierra del Fuego. Populations have been ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - A bird that's critically endangered in Ecuador hatched at the National Aviary. Lianni, the aviary's 38-year-old Andean Condor, laid the egg on April 5 and it hatched on June 7. The ...

Andean condors are critically endangered in Ecuador, according to the National Aviary in Pittsburgh. So aviary officials are understandably excited about the birth of a chick there on June 7. The ...

LIMA (Reuters) - Strapping a giant condor to the back of a raging bull is a central part of an Andean festival celebrated in Peru but some people worried about the endangered vulture's future say it ...

Researchers have found high levels of plastics in the diets and regurgitated pellets of Andean condors (Vultur gryphus) in Peru. The scientists conducted research in two protected areas — the San ...

In a recent study, Dr. Weronika Tomczyk and her colleagues conducted a zooarchaeological and isotopic study of ancient Andean condor bones from an archaeological site Castillo de Huarmey, providing ...

Gryph and Laurel are parents! The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden announced Friday that their egg hatched, breaking a 30-year dry spell in Andean condor breeding at the zoo. “The chick, a female, is ...