Editing Condor (section)

{{Short description|Name for two species of vultures}}
{{use mdy dates|date=May 2022}}
{{Use American English|date=July 2021}}
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{{Paraphyletic group
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| fossil_range = Late [[Pliocene]] – [[Holocene]]
| image = Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) at Colca Canyon.jpg
| image_caption = [[Andean condor]] soaring over southern Peru's [[Colca Canyon]]
| parent = Cathartidae
| includes_text = Genera
| includes = {{plainlist|
* ''[[Vultur]]''
*''[[Gymnogyps]]''}}
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'''Condor''' is the common name for two [[species]] of [[New World vulture]]s, each in a [[monotypic]] [[genus]]. The name derives from the [[Quechua language|Quechua]] ''kuntur''.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia| title=Raven|encyclopedia=Oxford English Dictionary|editor1=J. Simpson |editor2=E. Weiner | year=1989 |edition= 2nd| location=Oxford |publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn= 0-19-861186-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.quechua.org.uk/Eng/Main/AnalysisMainFrame.htm |title=A Quechua metaphor for a plane: Kuntur-man = "looking like a Condor" |publisher=Quechua.org.uk |access-date=2010-03-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606223245/http://www.quechua.org.uk/Eng/Main/AnalysisMainFrame.htm |archive-date=2014-06-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref> They are the largest flying land birds in the [[Western Hemisphere]].

One species, the [[Andean condor]] (''Vultur gryphus''), inhabits the [[Andean]] mountains. The other, the [[California condor]] (''Gymnogyps californianus''), is currently restricted to the [[Pacific Coast Ranges|western coastal mountains]] of the [[contiguous United States]] and [[Mexico]], as well as the northern desert mountains of [[Arizona]].