Once on the verge of extinction, the California condor population is slowly back on the rise. Conservationist and nature photographer Ian Shive Photography visits Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge to document the ongoing recovery efforts. —> Discovery.com/cacondor #californiacondor #wildlife #conservation #natureinfocus | Discovery

Ten critically endangered California condor chicks hatched at the Oregon Zoo’s Jonsson Center for Wildlife Conservation in Portland this season, the biggest batch born in the zoo’s 18-year conservation effort. | CBS Sunday Morning

11:11, make a wish! This California condor received fancy 1111 wing tags, after receiving a health check, by our partners over at The Peregrine Fund. Condor 1111 is Zion National Park's second wild-fledged California condor and one of 110 members of the Arizona-Utah condor population. "This condor represents the 1,111th condor identified since the recovery program [The Southwest Condor Working Group] began, and with the tagging, Condor 1111 joins the monitored population, which currently has alm

The California Condor Cam is back for 2022, focusing on a new nest in Tom's Canyon featuring #462 (male) and #846 (female). Their egg started pipping today, and is expected to hatch in the next 24-48 hours! Watch live at allaboutbirds.org/condors #462 was wild-hatched in 2008 by foster parents, male #247 and female #79 out of a Huttons Bowl nest, the same territory featured in last year's Condor Cam. #462 has nested twice before in 2018 and 2020; both times in Tom's Canyon with previous mate, fe