From the Big Sur coast, it has taken several fieldworkers from the Ventana Wilderness Society two and a half hours by four-wheel drive and on foot to reach the condor release pen nestled in the ...

A colossus of the sky, the California condor was nearly gone when biologists rescued it from extinction. Then came a terrible new challenge Franz Lidz; Photographs by Jak Wonderly The leaden sky ...

A cherished icon of the West, the prehistoric-looking California condor remains one of the world's most endangered species. North America's largest avian narrowly escaped extinction in the mid-1980s ...