Table 1. Number of Andean Condors affected (percentage values in parenthesis), and number of events by cause of injury, age (A = adult, I = immature, U = unknown), sex (M = male, F = female, U = unknown), individual birth condition (Wb = wild-born, Cb = captive-born), country (E = Ecuador, C = Colombia, V = Venezuela), and individual status (D = dead, Rc = recovered and in captivity, Rf = recovered and free-ranging), in northern South America between 1979 and 2021.
| Causes of injury | Number of individuals affected | Number of events | Age | Sex | Condition | Country | Status | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | I | U | M | F | U | Wb | Cb | E | C | V | D | Rc | Rf | |||
| Poisoning | 103 (63%) | 25 | 18 | 6 | 79 | 17 | 8 | 78 | 100 | 3 | 90 | 13 | 97 | 1 | 5 | |
| Shooting | 22 (13%) | 22 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 19 | 3 | 18 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 1 |
| Illegal trafficking | 10 (6%) | 1 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | |||||||||
| Trauma | 5 (3%) | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | |||||||
| Electrocution | 3 (2%) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||
| Falling from nest | 2 (1.2%) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Starvation | 2 (1.2%) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| Illegal capture | 2 (1.2%) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Collision with vehicle | 1 (0.6%) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Free-ranging dogs attack | 1 (0.6%) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Gastrointestinal infection | 1 (0.6%) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Undetermined | 12 (7.3%) | 12 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 1 | ||
| Total | 164 (100%) | 77 | 28 | 38 | 98 | 47 | 23 | 94 | 147 | 17 | 137 | 25 | 2 | 139 | 16 | 9 |