California condor (Gymnogyps californianus)

Query: New world vulture

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Subject:	California condor (Gymnogyps californianus)
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California condor (Gymnogyps californianus)

Plate 426 of Birds of America by John James Audubon depicting Californian Vulture.
Date 1827-1838
Source University of Pittsburgh
Author John James Audubon (1785–1851)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:426_Californian_Vulture.jpg

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

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