12K views · 346 reactions | Help us welcome our newest resident, female Andean condor Suyana. This beautiful bird is settling in to her new space and enjoying meeting guests. She will be the star of our upcoming Conservation Experience with other Avian Behavior residents. With a ten foot wingspan, she represents the largest flying birds in the world and will help us with key global conservation initiatives. | Avian Behavior Conservancy | Facebook

It takes a whole team! Our Andean condor Suyana has progressed by leaps and bounds in the last few months. She came to us already knowing many cues beneficial behaviors, but this was the first big change in her whole life and she needed to rebuild a new foundation with new trainers, a new job title, and an entirely different environmental set up than her previous home. We have seen her confidence increase steadily (usually), but sometimes her improvement flatlines and we have to decide if we are