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This is the first California condor spotted in San Mateo County since 1904. [16] The three-year-old female flew more than 100 miles (160 km) north from Pinnacles National Park, in San Benito County, on May 30, and landed on a private, forested property near Pescadero, on the San Mateo County Coast, where it was photographed by a motion ...
The California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) is a New World vulture and the largest North American land bird. It became extinct in the wild in 1987 when all remaining wild individuals were captured, but has since been reintroduced to northern Arizona and southern Utah (including the Grand Canyon area and Zion National Park), the coastal mountains of California, and northern Baja California ...
As of July 2014, there is a total population of 437 condors living in sites in California, Baja California and Arizona. [2] This includes a wild population of 232 and a captive population of 205. [2] 68 free-flying condors are managed by the US Fish & Wildlife Service in Southern California. [2]
Thanks to efforts such as the California Condor Recovery Program, the number of condors in the wild has risen from about 23 birds in the 1980s to more than 300 today. Of those condors, 93 are ...
Purchased to protect dwindling California condor foraging and roosting habitat in 1985, the 14,097-acre (57.05 km 2) refuge is the site where the last wild female condor was trapped in 1986. The reintroduced condors feed and roost on the refuge. The refuge is an integral part of the Service's condor monitoring activities.
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The United States Forest Service established the Sespe Condor Sanctuary in 1947 for the California condor, an endangered species which is the largest living bird in North America. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] On January 14, 1992, two captive-bred California condors and two Andean condors were released into the Sespe Condor Sanctuary, overlooking the Sespe Creek ...
The Sespe Wilderness Area, and the Sespe Condor Sanctuary, are primarily within the Topatopa Mountains and foothills. They are part of the home range of the endangered California condor. The habitat is of the California montane chaparral and woodlands ecoregion.