
Soaring Condors
One of the most amazing things about condors is that they fly like an engineless airplane. Unless you find them on the ground, you don’t see them flap their wings. They change course by tipping their wings, or an invisible movement of their feathers. When the wind stops, you can hear the sound of their wings as they cut the air just over our heads. We had been hiking through the Lenga forest, in the Southern Andes, crossing a few creeks, stopping to drink their clear waters,