Aves · Cathartiformes
California Condor
Gymnogyps californianus
One of the largest flying land birds alive, brought back from the brink of total extinction through rigorous captive breeding after declining to just 22 individuals in 1987.
- Realm
- Terrestrial
- Conservation status
- CRCritically Endangered
This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.
Method and versionA sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 1311 licence-filtered records across 18 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.
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