Posted on 05/03/2021 5:49:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Nestling 1078 hatched on April 12th according to the National Park Service
A rare California condor egg has hatched in Pinnacles National Park.
According to the National Park service, parents of the nestling are condors 589 (managed by Pinnacles) and 569 (managed by Ventana Wildlife Society).
Advertisement The park says the eggs hatched on April 12.
On a social media post Pinnacles National Park says the two parents have been a pair for about five years now and this is their third offspring. The park says 1,078 still must survive six more months in the nest relying on its parents completely for food and protection and, if all goes well, 1078 will learn to fly sometime in mid-October and will then spend up to another year with its parents, slowly gaining more independence as they show it how to find food and integrate into a wild condor flock.
The nest will be checked at least twice during the next six months by Pinnacles staff in order to test the chick for lead poisoning, remove any trash, do general health checks, and eventually give the nestling its own tag and transmitter so it can be monitored once it learns to fly.
The California condor has been protected as an endangered species by federal law since 1967 and by California state law since 1971.
According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, there are about 160 California condors flying free in Central and Southern California.
Cool.👍🦅
I thought Evil Nan was too ot have children.
Has it declared a gender yet?
:)
As much as I hate California these days, this is still very cool.
Ok, it’s not common, not a lot of these birds but they are the ugliest bird.
Saw some early one morning, perched in a tall Douglas fir at Mesa Verde. One stretched his wings to warm them in the morning sun. Huge. Truly a magnificent sight. Now I know why the Indians called them Thunderbirds.
We have seen them a few times on pch up there they are frickin beautiful
Oh so THOSE are Thunderbirds!
Our buzzards are a close second.
HA!!!....Not even close
If they died out....wouldn’t bother me a bit. They really are no longer needed.
Nestling 1078 hatched on April 12th according to the National Park Service
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Seems like they could come up with more imaginative names for these condors then just giving them a number. What about Bob? Or Soda. Or Seven. It’s a beautiful name for a boy or a girl...
“Pinnacles staff [are going to] remove any trash”
Must be nice having your own maid paid for by the state. I want that deal!
“Livin’ in tthe mountains buck tooth and naked”
Wouldn’t that be a turkey vulture?
Of course, you should know!
If you break that vulture’s fetus, it is protected by law and it’s a felony.
If you destroy a human fetus, it is called a “choice”, not protected by law.
In our society, an emerging vulture life has more legal protection than an emerging human life.
My wife is from China. Welived there a long time.
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