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Endangered California condors 'absolutely trash' woman's house, won't leave
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | MAY 7, 2021 | Ashley Harrell

Posted on 05/09/2021 4:19:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Under normal circumstances, a person would welcome the opportunity to closely observe a group of California condors, North America’s largest flying land birds, which made a miraculous recovery after nearly becoming extinct in the 1980s.

But over the weekend, more than a dozen of the majestic birds descended on a woman’s home and “absolutely trashed her deck,” according to a tweet from the woman’s daughter, Twitter user Seana Lyn.

“They still haven’t left,” Seana Lyn tweeted Tuesday. “It sucks but also this is unheard of, there’s only 160 of these birds flying free in the state and a flock of them decided to start a war with my mom.”

Seana Lyn also posted photos of the condors, all tagged with numbers that correspond with birds released in Southern California’s Kern County, along with the utter destruction of the deck.

“[My mom] does think this is pretty amazing but also the worst,” she wrote. “They keep hanging out on her roof and railings messing with stuff and pooping everywhere. Trees are fine but not in the house please.”

Intrigued Twitter users, along with an employee behind the U.S. Fish and Game Twitter account have weighed in, with at least four people making jokes about how the woman’s home should now be referred to as a “condorminium.”

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: condors
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1 posted on 05/09/2021 4:19:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

They probably taste like chicken.


2 posted on 05/09/2021 4:22:35 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? Homer Simpson)
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To: nickcarraway

Ugly birds


3 posted on 05/09/2021 4:23:14 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: Mark

Expensive chicken.


4 posted on 05/09/2021 4:23:41 PM PDT by kalee
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To: nickcarraway

I saw a condor one day from a community on the back side of Pike’s peak. Nothing else has a wingspan like that and glides so long without obviously moving its wings—not that I know of anyway.

Not surprised that they’re becoming trashy pests again.


5 posted on 05/09/2021 4:23:51 PM PDT by familyop (Only here for the tales from the rubber room.)
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To: nickcarraway

Filthy ugly birds. Only looking for trouble. Extinction should have happened. We stopped a natural phenonenem.


6 posted on 05/09/2021 4:24:22 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Mark

Ha a pair of buzzards get in a deer blind once and raised their chicks, ended up burning down the deer blind. What a God-Awful smell.


7 posted on 05/09/2021 4:24:28 PM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: nickcarraway

https://pseudogryps.org/2016/08/03/cost-value-worth/


8 posted on 05/09/2021 4:26:46 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: familyop

Got a glimpse of one decades ago from a distance.

It looked liked some kind of Pterodactyl.


9 posted on 05/09/2021 4:26:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: nickcarraway

It seems as though it should be that hard to come up with a deterrent.


10 posted on 05/09/2021 4:28:04 PM PDT by Tax-chick (I found that yelling at my screen did not effect the change I sought.)
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11 posted on 05/09/2021 4:28:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: nickcarraway

Buzzards,
nasty birds,
carrion eaters.


12 posted on 05/09/2021 4:28:17 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: nickcarraway

Get rid of the corpses in the attic. Problem solved.


13 posted on 05/09/2021 4:31:38 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Sacajaweau

We don’t have condors in Kansas but we do have turkey buzzards and we love them. They are so beautiful when they fly. They are amazing parents. The best time to watch them is in the early fall after the chicks have fledged. There are then up to five or six of them flying in formation.


14 posted on 05/09/2021 4:36:40 PM PDT by Mercat
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To: Sacajaweau
We stopped a natural phenonenem(sic).

If decades of shooting and poisoning can be considered a natural phenomenon.

15 posted on 05/09/2021 4:38:46 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: gundog

About right. Probably something dead under the hot tube cover. Get rid of it and they may move!


16 posted on 05/09/2021 4:39:51 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: nickcarraway

Nick, you always find the BEST stuff! You are a real treasure here on FR. You’re almost your own “News of the Weird,” but not really creepy weird stuff. Just a bit unusual and offbeat.

Thanks for this one. It made me laugh.


17 posted on 05/09/2021 4:45:17 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session" - Gideon J. Tucker)
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To: Sacajaweau

I don’t think people get that, that sometimes a species dies out naturally. Personally, I’m ecstatic that huge dinosaurs are extinct.


18 posted on 05/09/2021 4:47:00 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: Tax-chick

I’ve got a natural enemy to deter them: bats.

Baseball bats.


19 posted on 05/09/2021 4:48:54 PM PDT by Migraine
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To: nickcarraway

“These railings are poifect! Don’t ever change ‘em!”


20 posted on 05/09/2021 4:51:26 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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