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First California Condor Chick of the Season Hatches at San Diego Zoo Safari...
Today, cameras at the condor breeding facility at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park provided a look at the first California condor chick of the breeding season, which usually runs from early January...
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California Condor Chick Hatched at Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City
Representatives of two countries and two well-respected zoos announced the successful result of a breeding program that began with two female condors arriving in Mexico City from the U.S. in 2014. The...
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Condor Health Checks Conducted
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Conducts Health Check on Free-Flight California Condors at Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge Staff from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) are conducting health...
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Condor Hatching Begins
The big hatch day is quickly approaching and our devoted California condor parents, Sisquoc and Shatash, have been patiently caring for and incubating their egg. Well, actually, they’ve been caring for...
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California Condor Breeding Season Soars
The California Condor Breeding Season Soars, as San Diego Zoo Safari Park Welcomes Fourth Critically Endangered Condor Chick The condor conservation program at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park is in full...
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Ending Extinction
San Diego Zoo Global’s vision is to “lead the fight against extinction.” That’s a tall order. It’s an idea that gives one pause, an audacious undertaking with the potential for pitfalls, setbacks,...
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Luhui’s Big Reveal
The results are in: Luhui (pronounced “loo-HOO-ee”), our California condor chick on Condor Cam at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, is a male! He is now over 98 days old, and is starting to get his big...
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Condor Chick Season Has Begun
The 2021 condor breeding season is officially in full swing! San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance’s Condor Cam has made the switch from a view of last year’s chicks, including Tiyep, back to the nest...
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Why I ❤️ Vultures
Vultures can clean a carcass in a few hours, but without them, that carcass could stay around for days. My refrigerator’s “I Vultures” sticker is my daily reminder of how grateful I am for vultures....
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San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Conservation Scientists Report First...
Discovery of Parthenogenesis, or Asexual Reproduction, Is a First for the Species; and by Historic Confirmation Through Molecular Genetic Testing SAN DIEGO (Oct. 28, 2021) – Conservation scientists at...
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Surprised by Science
Many times, I have reflected about the remarkable wealth of data on the history and recovery of the California condor we have at hand because of the samples collected for genetic analysis beginning in...
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2022 Condor Breeding Begins
The 2022 condor breeding season has begun! We will soon be switching our Condor Cam over to the nest box view for a rare and exciting peek into a California condor nest. We also have some more very...
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