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  1. In 1987, the United States decided to capture every remaining wild California condor after lead poisoning, habitat loss, and poaching left just 27 birds alive; today, hundreds once again soar across western skies | World News

    Once on the brink of extinction, the majestic California condor’s survival hinged on …
    #NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #AU #Australia #Californiacondor #conservationefforts #Endangeredspeciesrecovery #leadpoisoning #Science #wildlifemanagement
    newsbeep.com/au/796344/

  2. europesays.com/ie/582324/ In 1987, the United States decided to capture every remaining wild California condor after lead poisoning, habitat loss, and poaching left just 27 birds alive; today, hundreds once again soar across western skies | World News #CaliforniaCondor #ConservationEfforts #Éire #EndangeredSpeciesRecovery #IE #Ireland #LeadPoisoning #Science #Wildlife #WildlifeManagement

  3. In 1987, the United States decided to capture every remaining wild California condor after lead poisoning, habitat loss, and poaching left just 27 birds alive; today, hundreds once again soar across western skies | World News

    Once on the brink of extinction, the majestic California condor’s survival hinged on a d…
    #NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #CA #Californiacondor #Canada #conservationefforts #endangeredspeciesrecovery #leadpoisoning #Science #wildlifemanagement
    newsbeep.com/ca/786037/

  4. In 1987, the United States decided to capture every remaining wild California condor after lead poisoning, habitat loss, and poaching left just 27 birds alive; today, hundreds once again soar across western skies | World News

    Once on the brink of extinction, the majestic Calif…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #californiacondor #conservationefforts #endangeredspeciesrecovery #leadpoisoning #Science #wildlifemanagement
    newsbeep.com/us/747795/

  5. #OTD in 1965, a jittery, pill popping & whiskey swiggin' #JohnnyCash went camping in the Los Padres National Forest. Shaking, cold, his nephew said he lit up a campfire outside his truck, one that soon ignited a blaze that torched 500 acres of habitat, took firefighters a week to put out, and left only 4 of the original 53 endangered #CaliforniaCondor in the area.

    He was defiant during a deposition: “I don’t give a damn about your yellow #buzzards. Why should I care?”

    In the end, the indignant Cash was taken to court by the federal government which was awarded $125,172 in damages, roughly equivalent to about $1 million in today’s dollars. Cash eventually settled the case and paid just $82,001 and til' his death proudly proclaimed he was the only person ever sued by the US government for starting a #forestfire.

    Just as Cash recovered from his debauched period, so did the Condors. While just 22 were known to remain alive in the early 1980s when Cash was being flipped the bird by his former record labels, the buzzards have had a conservation driven resurgence and now number more than 500.

  6. A two-year old California condor has visited Oregon (temporarily), the first time the species has been in the state since 1904.

    dailykos.com/stories/2026/6/2/

    #Nature #Birds #CaliforniaCondor

  7. Condor pair in nothern California are incubating the first wild egg in the region in more than a century.
    #CaliforniaCondor
    #california
    #birds
    cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/condo

  8. 📰 New California Condors Nest

    The YUROK TRIBE in the Pacific Northwest has reintroduced a pair of California Condors, who have established a nest.

    🔭 Biologists with the Northern California Condor Restoration Program (NCCRP) determined that the female condor, known by her Yurok name Ney-gem’ Ne-chween-kah (“She carries our prayers”), likely laid an egg inside a hollow in an old-growth redwood tree.

    🧑‍💼 This rare event did not come easy. The tribe spent nearly two decades conducting studies, evaluating contaminant risks, and building partnerships before releasing the first cohort of four condors in May 2022.

    zmescience.com/ecology/animals

    #SolarPunkSunday #Conservation #BirdConservation #WildlifeConservation #Biodiversity #CaliforniaCondor

  9. An extraordinary photo of a juvenile California Condor. 🖤 😘

    In order not to disturb the bird, it was not taken close up, but with a telephoto lens and then heavily cropped.

    The photographer is Tim Huntington.

    #Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #CaliforniaCondor

  10. "North America’s largest bird disappeared from the wild in the late 1980s. Reintroduction work in the United States and Mexico has brought this huge vulture back to the skies. This is the story of its comeback."

    knowablemagazine.org/content/a

    #Birds #Condor #CaliforniaCondor #Environment #Nature #Biodiversity #California

  11. A nice article about the california #condor.
    arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

    except I'm petty sure the title graphic is a nice image of a #turkeyVulture. I'm going by feather coloring and head coloring.

    Any bird people out there want to check this:-)

    #photography #birds #californiaCondor #birding

  12. Come for Zoe Grueskin's excellent story about Milagra, the orphaned California condor released last week. Stay for Karine Aigner's amazing photography.

    Just a beautiful piece of work all around.

    #birds #vultures #CaliforniaCondor

    audubon.org/magazine/witness-i

  13. On the heels of good condor news from California, awful news from Utah. in Zion National Park, the condor nicknamed 1K, because he was the 1000th egg hatched in the recovery effort, died of lead poisoning at 4 years old, about 5 yrs short of breeding age.

    Wildlife reintroduction is complicated, but for condors, lead is really the main problem, along with the global avian flu pandemic that has killed so many birds over the past two years.

    #vultures #CaliforniaCondor

    sltrib.com/news/2024/08/24/zio

  14. #californiaCondor #Condor #Condors dying from lead poisoning #Leadpoisoning.

    In Utah and Arizona, 53 condors have died from lead poisoning, and 90% of the birds that have been trapped have tested positive for lead in their blood since the birds were reintroduced to the region in 1996.

    sltrib.com/news/2024/08/24/zio

    #Zion #ZionNP #Endangered #EndangeredSpecies
    #EndangeredSpeciesAct

  15. Good news. There are two more wild California condors. Condors B4 and B6 were released August 21 to join 11 other Prey-go-neesh in the skies over Yurok traditional lands. Another incredible achievement from the Yurok wildlife office and Northern California Condor Restoration Program.

    Fly free, you two. Be safe and make babies.

    #vultures #CaliforniaCondor #wildlife

    Announcement from the tribe's Instagram account: instagram.com/p/C-_RGU9ym02/?i

  16. Vaccine may save endangered California condors from succumbing to bird flu - Enlarge / A numbered and tagged California Condor in the wild. (credit:... - arstechnica.com/?p=1974145 #endangeredspecies #californiacondor #syndication #avianflu #science #birdflu #h5n1

  17. From a PG&E wildfire camera on Blue Mountain, Kern County, in the foothills about 30 miles northeast of Bakersfield. Hard to tell, but there appear to be several other California condors roosting nearby.

    cameras.alertcalifornia.org/?p
    #Californiacondor #Condor

  18. Went to Pinnacles National Park on Friday and we were treated to soaring and resting California Condors. Amazing to watch these birds, not long ago nearly completely extinct, thriving here. #Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #CaliforniaCondor #PinnaclesNationalPark

  19. My sadness about the loss of cyanoptera #macaw chicks has been mitigated by the #CaliforniaCondor that I saw less than a mile from my house this afternoon. The wildlife sighting was a reminder that as a conservationist I should always hold on to hope and keep working.

  20. Whether you work with Oregon birds or are just interested in them and their conservation, I can't recommend this book enough. Full disclosure: I'm biased, having worked closely with a number of the section authors, but even so, especially as a transplant to Oregon, the book taught me a lot about the history and current status of ornithology and bird conservation issues in our state. And the art is fabulous.
    osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/

    #oregon #birds #pnw #californiacondor #spottedowl #birdart

  21. The #CaliforniaCondor was once already extinct in the wild. After reintroduction efforts it is now still considered critically endangered. #BoardGames 🎲♟️

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