Taronga Zoo's condor learns to fly

Lesley the Andean Condor is learning to fly - all nine kilos of her.

The South American bird, the world's largest bird of prey, spread its three-metre wing span over the northern Sydney suburb of Mosman, as Taronga Zoo bird trainers prepared her for the zoo's daily free flight bird show.

Two-year-old Lesley showed no stage fright in front of her first crowd, leaving her trainer to fly over a Mosman park and land on a bench in the same park.

Zoo trainers have started Lesley on an intensive 15-week training program to teach her to fly on command, rewarding her with mince balls and mice.

Taronga Zoo's condor learns to fly