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Condors Believed Nesting in the Pacific Northwest for the First Time in More Than 100 Years!
After a one-hundred plus year absence, it appears that California condors are once again nesting in the Pacific Northwest. This exciting turn of events is very much due to the efforts of northern California’s Yurok Tribe. Beginning in 2008, the tribe began assessing the levels of lead and other contaminants in Turkey Vultures in an […]
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California Condors Return to the Pacific Northwest
The California condor is among the world’s most critically endangered species. As of mid-September 2022, only 537 are in existence, 334 living in the wild, the rest in captivity (source: Ventana Wildlife Society). Once found across North America, with the die-off of large terrestrial mammal species 10,000 years ago, condor range contracted to the Pacific […]
