Male #50

... and if you need to hear El Condor Pasa.. [I did].. click here even tho' it has nothing to do with the picture. It is possibly the best-known Peruvian song worldwide due to the S&G cover version

California Condor, Gymnogyps californianus; population 356; Phoenix Zoo, Phoenix Arizona. Sartore: “This species nearly didn’t make it, but now there are more than 300 condors alive, and some of those birds fly free again. The bird you see here is known simply as Male #50. He flew in the wild for a time, until a collision with Arizona’s Navajo Bridge dislocated his right wing at the wrist. He’ll be an educational bird from now on—starting with this photograph.”