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  2. California condor - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Jan Hamber - Wikipedia

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    Jan Hamber (née Armstrong) is an American ornithologist and conservationist.While working at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History in the 1970s, she became involved in the effort to save the California condor, and has been credited with playing a major role in the condor's survival in the wild.

  4. New World vulture - Wikipedia

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    The California condor is critically endangered. It formerly ranged from Baja California to British Columbia, but by 1937 was restricted to California. [52] In 1987, all surviving birds were removed from the wild into a captive breeding program to ensure the species' survival. [52] In 2005, there were 127 Californian condors in the wild.

  5. “Carol Doda Topless at the Condor” ably spotlights a woman who in no small way changed the world. It leaves it up to you to determine if that change was by accident or design — and more ...

  6. 10 California condors are being released into SLO County ...

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  7. Condor found dead from gunshot wound in Central California ...

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    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 ...

  8. Gymnogyps - Wikipedia

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    Gymnogyps amplus was first described by L. H. Miller in 1911 from a broken tarsometatarsus. [1] [2] The species is the only condor species found in the La Brea Tar Pits' Pit 10, which fossils date to "a Holocene radiocarbon age of 9,000 years."

  9. Record 17 condor chicks thrive at L.A. Zoo: See the babies ...

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    A new method of rearing California condors at the Los Angeles Zoo has resulted in a record-breaking 17 chicks hatched this year. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: ...