Ironwing's most excellent condor thread

[IronWing]

Condor makes 116 mile flight in five hours.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Condor makes 116 mile flight in five hours.

Was that for fun or was there a real purpose? (dunno. must be important for it to fly that far. just curious).

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Was that for fun or was there a real purpose? (dunno. must be important for it to fly that far. just curious).

Some animals just really love moving around.

Arctic fox, 4300km in 76 days.

 

[IronWing]

Was that for fun or was there a real purpose? (dunno. must be important for it to fly that far. just curious).

The condor is reaching sexual maturity and is looking for breeding territory.

 

[IronWing]

Condor nest cam is up!

Edit: Link removed; the chick died on 6/22/2024.

 

[IronWing]

Here is a really good article on the chick.

Inside the Race to Save a Single Condor Egg After Avian Flu Killed Its Mother

How a long-shot rescue turned into an all-hands-on-deck mission to hatch a California Condor in captivity.

www.audubon.org

The condor chick will be released into the wild this September.

2024 California Condor Release | The Peregrine Fund

peregrinefund.org

 

[lxskllr]

Bummer about the (nestcam)condor chick :^(

 

[IronWing]

Who's metal?



We're f'in' metal!

 

[igor_kavinski]

Don't the birds feel like scratching those metal things off? What does OA mean?

 

[Ken g6]

I am embarrassed for my state.

Poached condor defied death elsewhere, only to be shot and killed on Colorado visit

California condor researchers track every rare survivor in the nearly extinct species, and mourn the loss of a Colorado visitor to poaching.

coloradosun.com

 

[IronWing]

The condor chick will be released into the wild this September.

2024 California Condor Release | The Peregrine Fund

peregrinefund.org

She's back in the wild.

Condor Cliffs

Dear 1221 (or Milagra as a lot of our friends call you), Welcome home, we are so glad you are back in these cliffs. We are still in awe of all that you have overcome since we rescued your egg. We...

www.facebook.com

 

[IronWing]

A new condor chick (black head) showed up out of the blue at Big Sur.

 

[IronWing]

If you can see FB videos, it's really cute.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=626662336613874

 

[IronWing]

One month of travels:

5.569 Aufrufe · 197 Reaktionen | The central California flock continues to grow and explore! While condors don’t migrate, they cover huge distances within their home range — and we’re now seeing them venture farther north and reconnecting to more of

The central California flock continues to grow and explore! While condors don’t migrate, they cover huge distances within their home range — and we’re now seeing them venture farther north and...

www.facebook.com

The north to south range is about 130 miles.