"The Condor" Top 5 Page for this destination Grand Canyon Favorite Tip by VeronicaG

Favorite thing: There are 60-70 condors living at the Grand Canyon. We were fortunate to see one lone condor drifiting on the air currents off a lookout along Hermit Road.

If you click on the opening photo, you'll see a black bird in the middle of the picture. This is the Condor. I was so flustered when my husband pointed it out, that I barely got the picture snapped. As you can see, it was taken at a distance.

Our sighting was most likely of a male, because it had large white triangular white patches in the underside of his wings. Condors have the largest wingspan (9.1 feet) of any other N. American bird. They can weigh between 15 1/2 to 31 pounds.

They enjoy dining on carcuses of large, dead mammals.