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Andean Condor, Pichincha, EC imported from iNaturalist photo 362610650🦅

Photo: (c) Bill Levine, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY 4.0

SpeciesAccipitriformesCathartidae
Birds

🦅Andean Condor

Vultur gryphus Linnaeus, 1758

קונדור האנדים (שם מדעי: Vultur gryphus) הוא עוף גדול ממדים ממשפחת הקונדוריים. הוא נקרא על שם הרי האנדים שבאמריקה הדרומית, שם הוא חי.

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Measurements
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≈ 1/6th of your weight
Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
11 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
79 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Andean Condor

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
11 kg
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 11 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.36 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.79 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.1 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.13 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
79 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
56 days
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
1
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Scavenger
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Grassland
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
11 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Andean Condor yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderAccipitriformes
  5. ›familyCathartidae
  6. ›genusVultur
  7. ›speciesVultur gryphus
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
  3. familyCathartidae
  4. genusVultur
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
  11. familyCathartidae
  12. genusVultur
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Closest relative on this site
🦅 Bald Eagle — last shared an ancestor ≈ 80 million years ago.
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コンドル (ja), Condor-dos-andes (pt), condor andí (ca), kondor andský (cs), Andeskondor (da), Andenkondor (de) … and 27 more languages
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Andean Condor, Pichincha, EC imported from iNaturalist photo 362610650Andean Condor imported from iNaturalist photo 28100377 on 3 December 2024Male Andean Condor
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