The condor chick #871 seems to be feeling better today. She is moving around and starting to flap her wings again. In the beginning of the video at 0:17 watch closely as a hummingbird visits and #871 watches with fascination. Afterwards, she gets up and starts to move the sticks around with her beak and investigating them. This behavior is called mandibulating by biologists. She does engage in some light flapping of her gorgeous wings. It is good news that she seems to be doing better today. The condor team at the USFWS is continuing to watch and monitor her. Thank you for watching!
This condor nest, known as the Devils Gate nest, is located in the Los Padres National Forest, near Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge. The parents of the chick in the Devils Gate nest are mom #513 and dad #206. Dad #206 hatched at the Los Angeles Zoo in 1999 and mom #513 hatched at the World Center for Birds of Prey in Boise Idaho in 2009. This is their third nesting attempt together but they have yet to successfully fledge a chick.
About the Condor Recovery Project
California Condors are critically endangered; they are on the 2014 State of the Birds Watch List, which lists species most in danger of extinction without significant conservation action. They are also listed as Endangered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and as Critically Endangered by the IUCN. All of the more than 400 condors now alive are descended from 27 birds that were brought into captivity in the early 1980s, in a controversial but successful captive breeding program.
Video captured & edited by Lady Hawk
Courtesy of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxlManXxsTo&feature=youtu.be
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