Condor US New World Vulture Family

Condor US is a species of bird which is called as California Condor and they have several features. This species of bird has a close similarity with the trait of the vulture families or the vulture species. Condor is the biggest land bird which is only visible in North America

At this moment the California Condor or Condor US species is the rarest of all the animals is in the whole world. Currently, these birds are in a threat by the human and thus they have been cornered to make their home in the coastal mountains of west of the United States. These birds are mainly subsisting on carrion or dead flesh because they belong to the scavenger consuming family.

Condor US actually belongs to the New World vulture family that is called as Cathartidae. They are more close to storks in nature and physical characteristics and differ mostly from the Old World vultures of Accipitridae family. These similarities also can be collated with the hawks, eagles and kites.

A report was made in 2005, by the California Department of Fish and Game which showed the entire population of Condor US as both captive and wild is 273 in California. These Condors can live for long time and they can survive even in the hardest of the environments. In the La Brea tar pits in California the remnants of the Condors have been excavated which date back between 40,000 and 8,000 years ago.

Condor US existed in the North American continent. They were seen to hunt the enormous number of big mammals that reigned here before the last Ice Age. At present condors live on carcasses like elk and domestic cattle.

In the prehistoric times it was discovered through the research that the Condor US used to eat big animals such as mammoths, mastodons, long-horned bison, saber-toothed cats, camels, and great wolves. These sort of animals were indeed more filling corpses for the condors of that time.

At that time Condor US shared their foods with many different other species of giant vulture, such as the gigantic teratorns which had the wings long as 12-foot. The gigantic teratorns were perhaps the gigantic of all other birds, which have ever reined the skies. Now it is the history for the condors and they are just like another rare or almost extinct species to live in a corner away from the whole country. Wikipedia