For the first time in 120 years, a California Condor Chick has lived long enough to fly out of its nest at Pinnacles National Park. She’s a female that was born in April. Other condors have fledged in Big Sur, Southern California, Arizona And Baja, but this is the first chick that has made it that far from Pinnacles since condors were re-introduced there. Of the other eggs laid at Pinnacles, some didn’t hatch at all, some were eaten by ravens and one bird hurt her wing and was taken to the Los Angeles Zoo. Lead poisoning continues to be the biggest threat to condors, because the large bird eats animals killed by hunters, thereby ingesting lead…which poisons the condors, and creating very thin shelled eggs.
