VERMILLION CLIFFS NAT'L MONUMENT -- By all accounts, Milagra the "miracle" California condor shouldn't be alive today. But now at nearly 17 months old, she is one of three of the giant endangered ...

Milagra, Spanish for “miracle,” was hatched and raised in captivity by foster condor parents after her mother died of avian ...

“This year’s condor release will be especially impactful given the losses we experienced in 2023 from HPAI and lead poisoning ...

Seventeen months after she was rescued as an egg from the same red rock cliffs, the California Condor known as ...

Drastic measures were needed to stop their nose-dive into extinction. The California Condor Recovery Program began in 1979, led by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). Its goal is to ...

Condors are the largest bird species in North America and a crucial part of the ecosystem, but during the 1980s, the California condor population declined to just 22 individuals. The raptors faced ...

A Rare Condor Hatched and Raised by Foster Parents in Captivity Now Gets to Live Wild By all accounts, Milagra the "miracle" California condor shouldn’t be alive today. But now at nearly 17 ...

For the first time in the United States, biologists have used a flu vaccine designed specially to protect the endangered ...