What is the California condor?

Endangered species, California Condor is a carnivorous bird that lives in wooded mountains in California, Arizona and Mexico. On the flight, the condors are massive creatures, which have a wing span of 10 feet (about three meters) and can rise to a height of 15,000 feet (about 4,600 meters) at speeds of up to 55 miles per hour (about 88 km). As an adult California condor usually weighs about £ 29 (about 13 km) and lives up to 60 years.

Creatures are easily recognizable. Adult condors have black bodies and a unique pink bald head that can actually change from yellow to bright red, depending on the mood of Condora. Their hairless heads prevent food to be held while turning. In addition to dead animals, the condors feed on rodents, rabbits and fish. They have a bad sense of smell, birds on their sharp eyes to find food. Condors will often travel together hundreds of kilometers to find food. When they find carcasses, Kondors can become so full that they won't have to eat a fewto the days.

California condor, known as the scientific name of Californianus Gymnogype, has very few natural enemies than humans. The native Americans worshiped birds who have the largest span of the wing of any bird in North America. Native Americans called Condors as Thunderbirds. When the creature ended, the native Americans thought the sky was filled with thunder when the birds waved their wings.

At the age of six years, creation usually reproduces. The California condor is reproduced slowly because the woman lays only one egg every two years. Condors often produces its nests in caves and slots. Within two months, eggs are produced with a cat with bald PNA most of the body. About five months later, the chick is ready for flight.

Condors were once abundant in the southwest, but their number in the wild in the 70s and 80s. Condors were the sameIt was deleted due to poaching and their habitat was destroyed. In addition, the condors were driven to the brink of extinction due to lead poisoning, obtained when creating unintentionally consume bullets left in a carcase. Thanks to the efforts to protect the most expensive in the history of the United States, birds in the wild have returned significantly, while the numbers in 2000 rose above 300.