For the last four years, a pair of ospreys have nested at the Sunset Aquatic Marina in Huntington Beach without success in raising chicks, according to residents and wildlife photographers. But ...

A record 17 California condor chicks have hatched during this year’s breeding season for the endangered birds at the Los Angeles Zoo.

Seventeen California condor chicks hatched at the Los Angeles Zoo in the 2024 breeding season, breaking the record of 15 set in 1997, zoo officials announced today.

The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance announced Thursday that two female critically endangered California condors had successfully hatched eggs without the help of male condors.

But Southern California, where the coastline is largely developed and where beach grooming cleans the sand of nourishing kelp, can be a precarious place for birds to raise their chicks.

Cute Humboldt penguin chicks hatch at Santa Barabara Zoo in California, and it’s significant to sustainability of vulnerable species.

The two chicks were born about a month ago to first-time parents Floyd and Roxy, residents of the aquarium’s penguin habitat, the Long Beach institution announced this week.

Dozens of bird eggs and chicks were rescued from nests in a single wind-damaged eucalyptus tree that was dangerously close to collapsing in a California park.