Beginning with the first reintroductions in 1992, 13 condors have been reintroduced into the wild in Santa Barbara County. |
In Colombia, biologists are busy reintroducing young condors hatched in North American zoos to parks and reserves. |
One of the recovery program's goals is to have 200 condors soaring in the wild. |
Not until age six will a young condor molt its brown feathers and grow the black-and-white plumage of adults. |
Our requests were answered almost immediately as a condor soared magnificently over our heads at the second pass. |
For instance, on August 15, 2003, biologists observed a baby condor, estimated at 15 to 16 weeks old, in a remote cave in the Grand Canyon. |