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Condor

HABITAT:

Mountain areas.

DESCRIPTION:

The California condor is one of the largest flying birds in the world, with a wing spread of nearly 3 m from tip to tip and weighing more than 10 kilos. They can fly around for hours without flapping their wings. After rising thousands of feet overhead on air currents, they 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 dead animals that they find.

THREATS:

Lead pollution of their food sources, shooting and collisions with man made objects.

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