FreeLists / birdky / [birdky] Re: California Condors are being successfully reintroduced in the

[OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 2/21/03 7:49:04 AM Central Standard Time, hamm@xxxxxxxxxx 
writes:


> Grand Canyon (AZ), south rim. We saw several there last spring.
> 
> 
 California Condors being successfully reintroduced in the wild has really 
not been determined, as their breeding there has been fraught with dead 
young. We are successfully breeding them in captivity and restocking, but 
will it be like trout, a put and take situation?

And therein lies the second tragedy, the female that once roamed free and had 
hatched, while in captivity, many of the same birds that have now been 
reintroduced, was returned to the wild in hopes of educating these young 
birds. Condors have a long learning period as evidenced by their long 
adolescents. These reintroduced birds are hanging around homes, drinking 
antifreeze and dying of many causes for the lack of leadership. They have to 
be taught things that are innate in other species, places to roost, places to 
find food, altitudinal migration, etc. After all these years she was put back 
into the wild to serve again and then only to be shot? 

Good Birding!!!

Jeff R. Wilson
OL' COOT / TLBA
Bartlett Tenn.


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