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The giant birds received treatment after 21 died in Arizona earlier this year.
How to watch the condor release online. On Nov. 6 the “2024 Rookie Virtual Release Event” will be livestreamed by VWS beginning at 9 a.m.; the doors of the holding pen will open around 10 a.m.
All the chicks will be candidates for release into the wild as part of the California Condor Recovery Program, the LA Zoo said in a statement. The 17th and final bird of the season hatched in June ...
Currently the California Condor Recovery Program is in effect in California, Arizona, and Baja. There are nearly 450 California condors in the world, with more than 275 flying free in the wild. [5] California has four release sites, of which the Sespe Condor Sanctuary is one.
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 ...
They made an exception in the case of #1221, aka Milagra. They saw her journey as emblematic of the captive breeding program coming full circle. Milagra's foster father, #27, was hatched in the wild in California in 1983. He was one of the first brought into the program as a nestling when fewer than two dozen were known to still exist worldwide.
The refuge shares information about the Condor Recovery Program through an outreach program that extends to local, national and international publics. The refuge is closed to public use to protect habitat for the endangered California condor and to support ongoing efforts to reintroduce California condors to the wild.
The condors are being held in a pen ahead of their release into the wild next week. Juvenile condors are ready to be released in California. Here’s how to watch