Another Condor Comes Into the World
Zoo officials working to bring the California condor back from the brink of extinction celebrated the hatching of a chick at the San Diego Wild Animal Park.
The birth Monday raises the total number of the birds to 222.
Since 1992, 157 captive-bred vultures wearing radio wing tags have been released by the San Diego and Los Angeles zoos and by the Peregrine Fund’s World Center for Birds of Prey in Boise, Idaho, said Michael Mace, the park’s curator of birds.
Of those, 57 have died. Twenty-one condors unable to adjust to the wild were returned to pens. Four chicks hatched in the wild are known to have died.
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
