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Conservation Status: IUCN Red List – Critically EndangeredThreats to Survival: Lead poisoning; Microtrash consumption Decline of the ThunderbirdsCalifornia condors are the largest flying birds in North America, with a wingspan of nearly 10 feet. Native Americans call them thunderbirds, believing they bring thunder to the skies with the beating of their tremendous wings. Once

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Conservation Status: IUCN Red List – Critically EndangeredThreats to Survival: Lead poisoning; Microtrash consumption Decline of the ThunderbirdsCalifornia condors are the largest flying birds in North America, with a wingspan of nearly 10 feet. Native Americans call them thunderbirds, believing they bring thunder to the skies with the beating of their tremendous wings. Once ranging from British Columbia to northern Baja California, Mexico, condor populations declined to as low as 22 individuals in the 1980s. In 1986, the U.S.

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