Andy, a popular fixture at Salt Lake City's Tracy Aviary for six decades, has died at the age of 64, aviary officials said.
The Andean condor's keeper, Helen Dishaw, found the bird dead Thursday morning. It's believed the bird died in his sleep of natural causes.
Andy hatched at the San Diego Zoo in 1959, bred as a part of the zoo's program to help repopulate the threatened species,. While the San Diego Zoo did send some birds in the program back to the wild in South America, it transferred Andy to the Tracy Aviary in 1960, where he spent the rest of his life.
Visitors take photos and watch "Andy" the condor as he walks at Tracy Aviary during Vulture Awareness Day in Salt Lake City on, Sept. 1, 2018. "He was well known to condor lovers around the world and received hundreds of birthday cards and greetings from his fans each year," they added, in a statement.
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