The Condor is a very big bird. It is the biggest flying
bird in the world.
It is black and white. The male has got brown eyes and a
red crest on the head.
The female is smaller than the male. It has got red eyes. It
hasn’t got a crest.
The Condor lives on the Andes Mountains in Venezuela,
Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina. In Argentina it lives on
the Andes and in Patagonia.
The Condor is a
bird of prey, but it doesn’t hunt. It eats meat from dead animals.
The Condor can fly very high. It can fly up to 6,000
metres.
When it opens the wings it can be 3 metres long.
It sleeps and
nests in high caves.
The female lays
only one egg every two years. The egg is white and it is 10 cm long.
The chicks can
fly after six months, but they stay in the nest with the parents for one year.
The Condor can
live for over 60 years.
The Condor is in
danger of extinction because the man is advancing over its habitat.