10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Many have been shot since the project started, despite a great deal of publicity raising awareness of the birds. Meanwhile, away to the west in southern Spain, there’s another reintroduction project that is trying to establish a permanent, stable and self-sufficient colony in the area of La Janda, on the Atlantic coast near Cadiz.

Morocco 246

Morocco Austria Algeria Germany 246

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. Some time after the Spanish encounter with the Turkey, birds were brought back to Europe where they were raised and became an important source of food and fancy feathers. According to R.D.

Turkey 246

Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 246

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2018

Beset by poaching by cattle ranchers, habitat loss, DDT, and lead poisoning (from consuming shotgun pellets embedded in the condor’s carrion fare), populations of this enormous New World vulture fell into a serious decline in the twentieth century. By tradition, the Köbe is always a man, though this isn’t a legal requirement.

California Condor 118

California Condor Oregon California Zoos 118