California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus) courtesy Wikipedia Commons
California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus) parents, Sisquoc and Shatash, have been patiently caring for and incubating their egg that is now beginning the first stage of hatching. The egg started to pip yesterday and the pip-to-hatch period can last between 48 and 72 hours.
You can watch this process at the San Diego Zoo’s Condor Cam during daylight hours and see the first ever Condor chick to hatch live online!
Now if we can only get the lead ammunition off the market, we might be able to successfully bring this species back from extinction. Read my post on California Condors and lead poisoning here.
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Fantastic capture.
an amazing looking bird! great shot, larry! hope their little one makes it!
@Rajesh and Theresa I wish I had taken this photo but it was taken at the Condor Ridge exhibit of the San Diego Wild Animal Park by Chuck Szmurlo. I have still never seen a California Condor but hope to see one in the wild sometime this year! This photo is courtesy of Wikipedia Commons and is therefore in the public domain and available for anyone to use.
Thanks for the link. Pray it makes it. We saw wild ones when we lived in N. CA in the early ’60s. Didn’t know until later that they were endangered We weren’t very knowledgeable about birds (or much of anything at all) back then.
Amazing capture, Larry! I don’t remember seeing a close shot of a condor. I hope everything goes well.
Thanks for the very interesting link to the nest camera. Great work they are doing at the San Diego Zoo!