IMG_0912 [Saving California’s Big Bird]

By
Thalia
– October 16, 2012
Mrs. Reinbold showed us a tracking device used to track the recovery efforts of the condors released into the wild. Released California condors have struggled with lead poisoning, colliding with power lines, and feeding their babies “microtrash”, which looks like bone to a condor parent. However, by changing laws regarding hunting with lead bullets, training condors to avoid power lines, and by introducing condors to bone chips before entering the wild, the survival rates of released condors have gone up dramatically.