A California condor who was central to the species’ recovery after near extinction is being celebrated at the Los Angeles Zoo. Topa Topa arrived at the LA Zoo in 1967 after he was found weak and ...

One of the L.A. Zoo’s most legendary residents is celebrating his 60th birthday. That’s right: Topa Topa the California condor, who has been key to the critically endangered species’ repopulation, has ...

BOISE, Idaho — There was a time when the California condor flourished in the western United States. But in recent decades, the largest land bird in North America, dwindled to an extremely weak ...

Topa Topa has contributed to the production of roughly 300 birds over his lifetime, with 94 flying free in the wild and another 100 in the recovery program as mentors or breeding condors.

Nearly 300 birds, fish, mammals and other critters have federal protection in the Golden State.

An egg laid in the wild by two free-flying Pacific Northwest condors appears to have failed, but Yurok biologists are excited by the first parenting attempt. Tiana Williams-Claussen, director for the ...

Filmed at Big Sur, California, this astonishing clip shows a huge condor taking flight from a high cliff without even flapping its wings! Thanks to a phenomenon called orographic uplift, the airflow ...

See wild icons that define the American landscape and the Explorers urgently pursuing their protection.  California is home ...

This city along California's North Coast is a different world from the exclusivity of other beach towns such as Malibu where ...