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The California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) is a New World vulture and the largest North American land bird. It became extinct in the wild in 1987 when all remaining wild individuals were captured, but has since been reintroduced to northern Arizona and southern Utah (including the Grand Canyon area and Zion National Park), the coastal mountains of California, and northern Baja California ...
Elevations on the Refuge range from 1,600 to 4,680 feet (490 to 1,430 m). Purchased to protect dwindling California condor foraging and roosting habitat in 1985, the 14,097-acre (57.05 km 2) refuge is the site where the last wild female condor was trapped in 1986. The reintroduced condors feed and roost on the refuge.
The Blue Ridge National Wildlife Refuge is part of the cooperatively-managed Blue Ridge Wildlife Habitat Area, an 11,000-acre (45 km 2) area set aside as an important roosting area located close to historic nesting and foraging habitat for the California condor.
The California condor is critically endangered. It formerly ranged from Baja California to British Columbia, but by 1937 was restricted to California. [52] In 1987, all surviving birds were removed from the wild into a captive breeding program to ensure the species' survival. [52] In 2005, there were 127 Californian condors in the wild.
The giant birds received treatment after 21 died in Arizona earlier this year.
The California condor can occasionally be seen, since the endangered bird was released back into the wild in 1992. The 1,200-acre (4.9 km 2) Sisquoc Condor Sanctuary, in the southeastern part of the wilderness, was chosen for its inaccessible terrain, which includes rock ledges favored by condors for nesting sites. Public entry is prohibited in ...
On Nov. 6, six captive-raised juvenile California condors will be released into the wild from the remote, rugged mountains above San Simeon. The new cohort (each about a year and a half old ...
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