A rare Andean Condor chick, a downy, grey-white baby bird the size of a grapefruit, hatched Friday at the National Aviary. This is the first Andean Condor chick to hatch at the National Aviary since ...

The rare chick hatched Friday morning, according to a spokesperson for the National Aviary. Currently the size of a grapefruit, the baby is being taken care of by its parents in the nesting cave at ...

The National Aviary’s Andean condor webcam is activated and the watch is on as an egg is expected to hatch within the next month. Andean condors are the world’s largest flying bird with a 10-foot ...

A new study sheds light on just how efficiently the world’s largest soaring bird rides air currents to stay aloft for hours without flapping its wings. The Andean condor has a wingspan stretching to ...

WASHINGTON — A new study sheds light on just how efficiently the world’s largest soaring bird rides air currents to stay aloft for hours without flapping its wings. The Andean condor has a wingspan ...

SANTIAGO, July 23 (Reuters) - An Andean condor being treated in Chile with lead in its blood, a pellet embedded in its skull and a satellite tracker from Argentina highlights the challenges of ...

LA PAZ, Feb 9 (Reuters) - The mysterious deaths of 35 giant condors, one of the world's largest flying birds, are being probed in Bolivia, where they are often found in the Andean regions. The corpses ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - A bird that's critically endangered in Ecuador hatched at the National Aviary. Lianni, the aviary's 38-year-old Andean Condor, laid the egg on April 5 and it hatched on June 7. The ...

Andean condors are critically endangered in Ecuador, according to the National Aviary in Pittsburgh. So aviary officials are understandably excited about the birth of a chick there on June 7. The ...