The California Condor has a body length of 43 - 52 inches, a wingspan up to 9 1/2 feet, and weighs 18 - 23 pounds. Condors mostly consume carrion (dead animal carcasses). They prefer the carcasses of large dead animals like deer, cattle, and sheep; however, they are also known to eat the carcasses of smaller animals like rodents and rabbits.
Condors nest in a cave or cleft among boulders on a cliff or hillside. The female will lay the single egg directly on the floor of the cave. The egg is incubated for 54 - 58 days. The young condor learns to fly in about 6 months, but will stay with its parents for several more months. The extended breeding season prevents condors from breeding yearly. California Condors usually become sexually mature at 6 years of age.
California Condors are social birds and they spend a great deal of time feeding and roosting together.
Ugly Animals - California Condor
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this looks quite handsome compared to a turkey or a frigate bird.
such an ugly bird, the California Condoris a species that enjoys a great deal of admiration and attention from birders in North America and around the world. Males have a reddish or maroon comb as well. Apparently, the head and neck skin flushes when the individuals are aroused or in emotionally excited states. Perhaps this serves as a mood indicator to others of its kind.The Condor is known as Kuntur in Quechua, which is the language of the Inca Empire and is still spoken by more than half of the population of Peru.
Definitely an ugly bird. But if you ask me, he's only second runner-up for the title of Ugliest Bird. The turkey vulture is first runner up, and the Marabou Stork takes the top honor.
I dunno, I've always appreciated the looks of the condor and vulture. I really find them kinda attractive.
Aside from the bulge in its chin, I don't think that it is ugly at all. I agree that it looks like a vulture but it looks less scary.
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