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California Condor Summary
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With a wingspan of over 9 ft (about 3 m), the California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) has the largest wingspan of any bird in North America. The condor is a scavenger. It is a member of the New World vulture family (Cathartidae), and is closely...
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Condor Information
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Condor is the name for two species of New World vultures, each in a monotypic genus. They are the largest flying land birds in the Western Hemisphere. They are: The Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus) which inhabits the Andes mountains. The California...


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Natural History
The condor and the bull
07/01/2001: 1,908 words, approx. 6 pages
"We did not get the pay we were promised," complains Jose Quispe. He and twenty other men endured two weeks without shelter in the cold, arid Peruvian plateau, subsisting on meager rations, in order to capture a condor for the big fiesta in the...
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California Condor lays egg in Mexico
4/3/2007: 492 words, approx. 2 pages
An egg found in an abandoned eagle nest could herald the return of the California condor to Mexico, which hasn't had a breeding population of the iconic giant of the skies for about 75 years."This is a momentous occasion," Dr. Mike Wallace of the Zoological...
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Rare condor chick hatches at Denver Zoo
6/15/2007: 258 words, approx. 1 pages
A rare Andean condor has hatched at the Denver Zoo, becoming only the second such bird to hatch at a zoo anywhere in the world in the past year, zoo officials said Thursday.The Denver condor, a male, hatched May 13, joining a condor born in...
 


 

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