California Condor

How to identify

Field marks

1. Adult body black, with large white underwing patches
2. Head almost bare of feathers
3. Adult bill ivory-colored, legs and feet gray
4. Adult has a ring of black feathers around the base of the neck

Male, female and young

Female smaller than male; juvenile mostly mottled dark brown, with a blackish head.

Voice

Can only hiss or grunt, audible only at very close range.

Where and when it's recorded

California Condor has been recorded at 2 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 1 country or region.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Sedgwick ReserveUnited States2 records
2. Laguna LakeUnited States2 records

Countries and regions with the most records

United States

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) is a New World vulture and the largest North American land bird. It became extinct in the wild in 1987 when all remaining wild individuals were captured, but has since been reintroduced to northern Arizona and southern Utah (including the Grand Canyon area and Zion National Park), the coastal mountains of California, and northern Baja California in Mexico. It is the only surviving member of the genus Gymnogyps, although four extinct members of the genus are also known.

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