San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: California Condor
This resource provides detailed information about the California condor, as well as several pictures.
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Andean Condor
This excellent resource from the San Diego Zoo presents extensive information on Andean condors including details about their habitat, physical characteristics, size, diet, family life, conservation status, and fun facts.
Oakland Zoo
Oakland Zoo: California Condor
Meet the California Condor and discover fascinating facts and statistics. Learn about its physical characteristics, habitat, diet, behavior, breeding patterns, conservation, and more.
Animal Fact Guide
Animal Fact Guide: California Condor
This reference material explores the largest flying bird in California, the condor. Learn about its habitat, diet, physical characteristics, and much more!
Sheppard Software
Sheppard Software: Condors
This site gives an in-depth description of a condor, including its behavior, appearance, reproduction, threats, and classification. The site includes photos and illustrations and an interactive quiz to test your understanding.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: California Condor O Logy Card
Flip this interactive OLogy card to start learning about the California condor. Review some fast facts about condors and answer multiple-choice and fact-or-fiction questions to test your understanding.
Canadian Museum of Nature
Canadian Museum of Nature: Condor
Described are the locations where the Condor may be found and its characteristics. Nine excellent photographs include close up shots of this magnificent bird.
Chicago Zoological Society
Chicago Zoological Society: Zoo Explorer: Andean Condor
Find out more about the large Andean condor by browsing this reference from the Brookfield Zoo. In addition to quick facts, this animal guide offers details on its appearance, environment, lifestyle, and eating habits.
PBS
Pbs Teachers:patagonia: The Aeronautics of Condor Flight
Examine the size, range and habits of the Andean condor, construct a model condor and fly it.
Canadian Museum of Nature
Canadian Museum of Nature: California Condor
There are very few California condors left and the ones that are able to reproduce are in captivity as efforts are made to build up their population. The reasons for their decline are explained here and you can see some pictures of them.
Encyclopedia of Life
Encyclopedia of Life: Andean Condor
The Encyclopedia of Life presents this in-depth overview of Andean Condors (Vultur gryphus), including their habitats, size, conservation status, and much more. Images of this species and maps of its global distribution can also be found...
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Cornell Lab of Ornithology: California Condor
This detailed site contains a wealth of factual information about the largest flying bird in North America. Topics include: cool facts, description, range, habitat, food, behavior, reproduction and conservation status. In addition, the...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clippix Etc: Andean Condor Preening
Andean Condor Preening
Smithsonian Institution
Lemelson Center: Inventors' Stories: Paul Mac Cready
Article on the inventions of Paul MacCready, who developed the world's first human-powered flight machine, called the Gossamer Condor.
Curated OER
California Condor
This detailed site contains a wealth of factual information about the largest flying bird in North America. Topics include: cool facts, description, range, habitat, food, behavior, reproduction and conservation status. In addition, the...
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Conservation Success Stories
Conservation success stories are now evident all over the world, attesting to the resilience that bird populations can exhibit when agents causing their declines are removed, and when birth and death rates come back into balance. Read...
Smithsonian Institution
National Air and Space Museum: America by Air: Airline Expansion and Innovation
Air travel grew in the 1920s and 1930s despite the Great Depression. Read about the new commercial airlines of the time and what it was like to fly at the dawn of commercial passenger flight.
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Animals
This resource describes the most popular animals at the world-famous San Diego Zoo. Each profile gives background about a specific animal, and more information about the species.
Sheppard Software
Sheppard Software: Vultures
This site gives an in-depth description of a vulture, including its behavior, appearance, and classification. The site includes photos and illustrations and an interactive quiz to test your understanding.
Sea World Parks & Entertainment
Sea World Parks & Entertainment: Endangered Species
The site provides a detailed overview of currently endangered species. Content includes a focus on various conservation organizations, endangered species profiles, and more.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Birds of Prey: Looking at Raptors Quiz
Take this interactive, multiple-choice quiz over birds of prey, then review your score and any missed questions at the end.
Other
Bob's Rock Shop: Rock & Gem: Agates From the Land of Pumas and Craters
An article about hunting agate in Argentina, from Rock & Gem magazine.
Curated OER
Unesco: Peru: Huascaran National Park
Situated in the Cordillera Blanca, the world's highest tropical mountain range, Mount Huascaran rises to 6,768 m above sea-level. The deep ravines watered by numerous torrents, the glacial lakes and the variety of the vegetation make it...