California Condor Related Topics 
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.
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.
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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
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.
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
APRIL 8, 2016
Condors, of course. California Condors , La Brea Condors , and the Merriam’s Giant Condor — a magnificent bird even in death. Eagles with appealing names like Fragile Eagle and Errant Eagle , as well as the extant Golden Eagle.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2017
The class also includes some of the most iconic endangered birds, including the California Condor, Whooping Crane, and Puerto Rican Parrot. California Condor – Gymnogyps californianus. The “ Class of 1967 ” includes 36 species of birds, and they range from those delisted due to recovery to those lost to extinction.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 27, 2012
In California, where there is already a ban to protect released California Condors , the Ventana Wildlife Society is giving away non-lead ammunition with the hope that it will encourage hunters to follow the law. At issue is that millions of birds each year end up eating the lead and dying.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 26, 2018
But after the recent controversy that surrounded the renaming of the Gray Jay to Canada Jay , perhaps its best to leave these names be for now (and you can find Canada Jays in California and even Arizona, by the way).
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2013
The unrivaled aerial champions of the Americas have to be the two species of Condor, the one-time almost nearly extinct California Condor and the truly massive Andean Condor. The California Condor has a story well-known by anyone with an interest in birds. California Condor , photo by Sheridan Woodley.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 2, 2016
Among the most famous of these is the Sandhill Crane – with its oldest confirmed remains dating back 2.5 million years to the Lower Paleolithic.
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 5, 2016
In terms of coloration, National Geographic describes the Andean Condors as “mostly black, but males have a distinctive white ‘collar’ around their necks and some white markings on their wings as well. Like their relatives, the California condors, Andean condors have bald heads.”
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 23, 2015
There are many charismatic endangered birds that capture people’s hearts and imaginations: the colossal California Condor , the evocative Red-crowned Crane , and the adorable Spoon-billed Sandpiper come to mind.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2012
Let’s call it the California Condor exception. The rules of the game, and what you can and cannot count, are the domain of the ABA. So while we are dealing with Hawaii and all, let’s change how one rule is applied!
10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2019
such as California Condors and Passenger Pigeons. He was the founder of both and a devoted keeper of the spirit of threatened raptors the world over, including the California Condor , which also underwent captivity in order to survive. Author Sherrida Woodley thinks deeply about dearly departed birds.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2015
There are many charismatic endangered birds that capture people’s hearts and imaginations: the colossal California Condor , the evocative Red-crowned Crane , and the adorable Spoon-billed Sandpiper come to mind.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2015
There are many charismatic endangered birds that capture people’s hearts and imaginations: the colossal California Condor , the evocative Red-crowned Crane , and the adorable Spoon-billed Sandpiper come to mind.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
There are several species, such as California Condor, for which new material had to be written (California Condor is called “nearly extinct” in the older title and not included). Similar species and conservation appear to be original material. There is nothing wrong with this.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2019
The brewery names each of its beers after endangered species of California’s Central Coast, including the California Gnatcatcher ( Polioptila californica ) and Scripp’s Murrelet ( Synthliboramphus scrippsi ).
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2011
With an 8 to 9 1/2 foot wingspan and weighing in at up to 30 pounds, it rivals the California Condor for size and weight. The American White Pelican ( Pelecanus erythrorhynchos ) is a huge bird!
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2020
A young couple caring for an injured Common Nighthawk; a college professor insistently taking a class of New York State undergraduates to see a Lucifer’s Hummingbird in an isolated part of Arizona; an ornithologist venturing into a terribly dangerous part of Mexico to find the probably extinct Imperial Woodpecker; a volunteer steward tracking (..)
10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2019
” “The California Condor ?” .” I shot a glance at the woman, hoping this would take her fancy, but she was now openly playing with a gold-cased iPhone. “Doves are booo-ring,” said the tech-bro next to the tech-bro. “And no one’s even heard of that one.” ” “No uggos.”
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 3, 2014
California Condor. If you’re spotting a pattern here, it’s because I was enchanted with a BBC documentary as a kid called The Velvet Claw, a natural history of the order Carnivora. My favourite animal as a kid. I came even closer to seeing this one, as a friend and I were all set to drive to Big Sur to watch a release.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2016
People who enjoy California Condors will also enjoy baby moorhens. I distinctly saw that this definitively wild, vagrant Yellow-billed Duck from tropical Africa had a leg band from Cape Town bird observatory, but I sadly couldn’t read the entire code and therefore missed my chance at a WP first at Hannover Zoo.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
She’s contemplated California Condors here before, but Passenger Pigeons seem to resonate most with her. Author Sherrida Woodley thinks deeply about dearly departed birds. Every now and then I let myself fantasize about the wildest thought of all—about Passenger Pigeons.
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 21, 2010
But again, he's a conservationist, so none of this is a surprise.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 30, 2011
South of the city you’ll find rich birding around the Bay and further afield you’ll reach the soaring California Condors of Big Sur and Pinnacles. The Western Bluebird above was photographed after a day spent volunteering with the GGRO’s banding program.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 13, 2018
Another is California Condor in the Grand Canyon.). There’s little better than seeing an American Dipper work a rocky stream in Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park, a near-perfect combination of bird and location. In contrast, one of my lifers in 2017 was an Emperor Goose in the Bay Area.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 22, 2013
For example, in California, populations of birds like Aleutian Cackling Goose have dramatically increased…but where did our Fulvous Whistling-Ducks go? We have more California Condors , Bald Eagles , and Peregrine Falcons , but there seem to be less Spotted Owls , Burrowing Owls , Sooty Shearwaters.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2022
For example, in reading about the re-introduction of the California Condor into the Pacific Northwest, the press releases referred to a “non-essential experimental” group of condors. The answer sometimes result in a post. I had no idea what that meant at the time, but it later became a post.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2022
For example, in reading about the re-introduction of the California Condor into the Pacific Northwest, the press releases referred to a “non-essential experimental” group of condors. The answer sometimes result in a post. I had no idea what that meant at the time, but it later became a post.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 2, 2012
The new edition adds 11 species, birds such as Zone-tailed Hawk, Short-tailed Hawk, and California Condor that are only seen in specific areas of North America. The original Hawks in Flight treated 23 raptors, the major hawks that migrate through North America.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2015
The Mourning Dove ( Zenaida macroura) is among the most abundant and widespread terrestrial birds endemic to North and Middle America. Their habitats vary widely in both rural and urban landscapes; open habitats are preferred and the species generally shuns only extensively forested areas and wetlands 1.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2019
California Condor – Gymnogyps californianus. White-faced Ibis – Plegadis chihi. Lago de Cuitzeo. 01 Jul 2019. Roseate Spoonbill – Platalea ajaja. Gulf of Nicoya (Puntarenas/Paquera ferry). 05 Jul 2019. Bitter Creek NWR–sign overlook. 16 Jul 2019. Black Vulture – Coragyps atratus. 05 Jul 2019.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 7, 2018
I had gotten a tip, that just below the observatory, above San Telmo De Abajo, is a feeding station, and protection area for the local California Condors. This was to be my huge surprise day! This was going to be the home run in my first couple of months.
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