Raising their numbers: A male condor at the Centre for Rehabilitation of Birds of Prey in Talagante, Chile. Condor populations in South America have been decimated in recent decades. — TNS
Colombian condor repopulation programme gets technology upgrade.
Their wings spanning 3m or more as they glide serenely above Colombia’s Andes, condors are majestic physical specimens. They have been important symbols there since pre-colonial times, when indigenous tribes saw them as messengers of the gods and harbingers of good fortune.
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