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The California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) is a New World vulture and the biggest North American land bird. It got terminated in the wild in 1987 (all excess wild people were caught), however has since been once again introduced to northern Arizona and southern Utah (counting the Grand Canyon territory and Zion National Park), the waterfront heaps of focal and southern California, and northern Baja California. Albeit four other fossil individuals are known, it is the lone enduring individual from the family Gymnogyps. The species is recorded by the IUCN as basically jeopardized.
The plumage is dark with patches of white on the underside of the wings; the head is to a great extent bare, with skin tone going from dim on youthful birds to yellow and radiant orange on reproducing grown-ups. Its 3.0 m (9.8 ft) wingspan is the broadest of any North American bird, and its weight of up to 12 kg (26 lb) almost rises to that of the trumpeter swan, the heaviest among local North American bird species. The condor is a scrounger and eats a lot of remains. It is one of the world's longest-living birds, with a life expectancy of as long as 60 years.
Condor numbers significantly declined in the twentieth century because of poaching, lead harming, and natural surroundings annihilation. A protection plan was set up by the United States government that prompted the catch of the relative multitude of staying wild condors which was finished in 1987, with a complete populace of 27 people. These enduring birds were reproduced at the San Diego Wild Animal Park and the Los Angeles Zoo. Numbers rose through hostage rearing and, starting in 1991, condors were once again introduced into nature. From that point forward, its populace has developed, yet the California condor stays one of the world's most extraordinary bird species: starting at 2019 there are 518 California condors living wild or in imprisonment.
The condor is a critical bird to numerous Californian Native American gatherings and assumes a significant part in a few of their customary fantasies.
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