A young California condor from the L.A. Zoo had been flying freely for only three months when he died after ingesting a lead pellet from an air gun.

A California condor, known as Pey-noh-pey-o-wok', has died from lead poisoning just months after being released into the wild as part of the Yurok Tribe's Northern California Condor Restoration Program.

Lead poisoning killed the youngest member of an endangered flock of California condors in Redwood National Park in Humboldt County, Yurok tribal wildfire officials said Wednesday.  The 18-month-old condor,

B7, the youngest member of the North Coast’s fledgling California condor flock, also known by the Yurok name Pey-noh-pey-o-wok' (I am friend or kind

The Yurok Tribe of Northern California say that, according to a pathology report, a California condor's cause of death was lead poisoning.