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title: "California Condor"
description: "Gymnogyps californianus — Uccelli. The California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) is a New World vulture and the largest North American land bird."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/california-condor
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# California Condor

> Gymnogyps californianus — Uccelli. The California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) is a New World vulture and the largest North American land bird.

- Scientific name: *Gymnogyps californianus*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `mountains` (Montagne)
- iNaturalist observations: 7151
- Wikidata: [Q194314](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q194314)
- iNaturalist taxon: [4778](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4778)

## Names

- en: California Condor
- de: Kalifornienkondor
- es: Cóndor californiano
- fr: Condor de Californie
- nl: Californische condor
- pt: Condor-da-califórnia
- pl: Kondor kalifornijski

## Countries with the most observations

US (6490), MX (190)

## Summary

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. The species is listed by IUCN as critically endangered, and similarly considered Critically Imperiled…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_condor

## Photo

![California Condor](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/california-condor/medium.jpg)

Photo: Dorothy Johnson · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/309368478

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/california-condor?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).