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.”
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They probably taste like chicken.
Ugly birds
Expensive chicken.
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.
Filthy ugly birds. Only looking for trouble. Extinction should have happened. We stopped a natural phenonenem.
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.
Got a glimpse of one decades ago from a distance.
It looked liked some kind of Pterodactyl.
It seems as though it should be that hard to come up with a deterrent.
Buzzards,
nasty birds,
carrion eaters.
Get rid of the corpses in the attic. Problem solved.
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.
If decades of shooting and poisoning can be considered a natural phenomenon.
About right. Probably something dead under the hot tube cover. Get rid of it and they may move!
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.
I don’t think people get that, that sometimes a species dies out naturally. Personally, I’m ecstatic that huge dinosaurs are extinct.
I’ve got a natural enemy to deter them: bats.
Baseball bats.
“These railings are poifect! Don’t ever change ‘em!”
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