The Californian condor was once spread throughout the North American continent, including in the vicinity of the Grand Canyon and the Californian Mountains. He is considered the main longevity among birds - some individuals survive to fifty or more years. But along with this indicator condo also belongs to another - the species threatened with extinction in the near future, because now there are about three hundred birds. More than half of them - under the supervision of environmentalists, because releasing them to freedom means signing a death sentence, because American lovers shoot in the 80 years of the last century almost completely destroyed the entire population. But weapons and intruders have since not diminished.