Single California condor mother gets help raising her chick

Single California condor mother gets help raising her chick

After coming back from the brink of extinction in the 1980s, the birds are still considered critically endangered.

On 19 April 1987 the last free-flying condor, AC-9, was caught at Bitter Creek in California, leaving all 27 survivors in captivity; by 31 December 2025 the species numbered 607, 392 of them wild

A species brought to the brink of extinction nearly forty years ago has staged an improbable comeback, raising thorny questions about what recovery truly means.