California Condor Related Topics 
10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2012
The newest bird on the brink to capture her fertile imagination is the California Condor, on which she graciously shares her research and ruminations: Sometimes as a writer you recognize there’s been something overlooked in your midst—something quietly abiding. My first view of them was at a distance.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 11, 2019
Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) recently proposed reintroducing California Condors in the Pacific Northwest. Although sometimes thought of a bird of the Southwest, the condor’s historical range reaches as far north as British Columbia. But condors have not been in the Pacific Northwest for more than a century.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 8, 2017
As many birders know, the last wild California Condors were captured by the U.S. Audubon thought there should be some wild condors to serve as “guide birds” for condors that would eventually be released from the captive breeding program. Photos : California Condors 1 , 2 , 3 by Pacific Southwest Region USFWS.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 15, 2015
Can California Condors be taught to avoid the dangers of power lines ? Prothonotary Warblers (like the dapper bird above captured for posterity by Corey) should carry frequent-flier cards—a recent Audubon-led study found that one geolocator-toting individual racked up more than 5,000 miles in eight months.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
And oh crap, you guys, we really have to do something about the California Condor situation right now, but what? And no one had seen the Eskimo Curlew around in a while. Or Bachman’s Warbler. Or the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Will it work? Because if it doesn’t there are no second chances (Black-footed Ferret aside.).
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2014
It was not mine, and I couldn’t miss what I had never had.
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2018
Following passage of the United States Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966, the California Condor ( Gymnogyps californianus ) was among the first 75 species listed for protection, the so-called “Class of 1967”. Reintroduction efforts expanded to Arizona in 1996, and later, to the Baja California peninsula in Mexico.
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