I thought my interview with Pinnacles National Park’s condor program manager, Alacia Welch, was going to be about how the critically endangered birds have coped after Big Sur’s Dolan Fire. And we did ...

Deep in the heart of this breathtaking wilderness, a California condor launches itself from the sunlit skeleton of a burnt Ponderosa pine. Its great wings cut through the mountain air with a low ...

Six condors in the Central California flock have perished in 2025, but those losses, however tragic, will soon be superseded as 13 juveniles—seven raised in captivity in the Los Angeles Zoo and six ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Firefighters monitor a controlled burn to help contain the Dolan fire near Big Sur in September 2020. On Thursday, Ivan Gomez was ...

Wildlife biologists are profoundly concerned about the recent shrinking of the California condor population in the central California region. While 102 giant birds with 9 ½-foot wingspans could be ...

Ventana Wildlife Society condor biologists Darren Gross and Kara Fadden attach tags to juvenile condors in preparation for their release into the wild in November 2024. Meredith Evans On Nov. 6, six ...

BIG SUR — Deep in the heart of this breathtaking wilderness, a California condor launches itself from the sunlit skeleton of a burnt Ponderosa pine. Its great wings cut through the mountain air with a ...