12 California Condor Facts - Fact Animal
California condors are simple animals. They aren’t good at much, but they know what they’re good at. Their enormous wingspan carries them hundreds of miles on high-altitude foraging trips, picking out mammal carcasses with keen eyesight to bring back to their ugly little babies.
About - California Condors (U.S. National Park Service)
2021年2月22日 · Condors are striking birds that can be viewed as ugly or majestic, depending on who you ask! Like many other vultures, condors are scavengers that eat only dead animals. They have bald heads, sharp hooked beaks, muscular necks, and large flat feet (instead of the seizing talons that characterize raptors).
California condor - Wikipedia
Its 3.0 m (9.8 ft) wingspan is the widest of any North American bird, and its weight of up to 12 kg (26 lb) nearly equals that of the trumpeter swan, the heaviest among native North American bird species. The condor is a scavenger and eats large amounts of carrion. It is one of the world's longest-living birds, with a lifespan of up to 60 years.
California Condor - All About Birds
The spectacular but endangered California Condor is the largest bird in North America. These superb gliders travel widely to feed on carcasses of deer, pigs, cattle, sea lions, whales, and other animals.
California Condor - Animals Network
While they may look ugly to you, this lack of feathers has a purpose for the birds. Condors feeding on carcasses can dig into the rotting flesh without entangling debris in their feathers, because they don’t have any. This adaptation allows the birds to effectively clean themselves, which is vitally important to maintaining their health.
California Condor - San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
California condors are the largest flying birds in North America, with a wingspan of nearly 10 feet. Native Americans call them thunderbirds, believing they bring thunder to the skies with the beating of their tremendous wings.
California Condors - U.S. National Park Service
2017年12月20日 · As the largest landbirds in North America, California condors draw attention as they soar overhead. Condors can catch updrafts that carry them for hundreds of miles in a single day. They are extremely curious and maintain complex social hierarchies, and are very long-lived.
California Condor
After rising thousands of feet overhead on air currents, California condors will glide long distances, sometimes at more than 55 miles per hour. From the air, they search for dead animals, like deer or cattle. They feed only on carrion (dead animals that they find). Condor nest sites are in cliff caves in the mountains.
California condor, facts and photos - National Geographic
The California condor is the largest flying bird in North America. Its wings may stretch nearly 10 feet from tip to tip. When in flight, this huge bird glides on air currents to soar as high as a...
California Condor - U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
The California condor (Gymnogyps californianus), with a wingspan of 9.5 feet and weighing up to 25 pounds, is the largest land bird in North America. These majestic creatures historically ranged from California to Florida and Western Canada to Northern Mexico.