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Holiday In Wales In a major blow to the $35-million effort to save North America's largest bird, the first California condor chick brooded and hatched in the wild in 18 years was found dead Friday on a remote ledge deep in Los Padres National Forest.

Condors have now been successfully released in Los Padres National Forest, Big Sur, the Grand Canyon and Baja California. "Although condors were common in the first half of the last century, these magnificent birds are unknown to the younger generation, " said Horacio de la Cueva, who helps run the Baja condor project. "Our education plans aim to teach both about the biology of this bird and the global importance of environmental conservation in Baja California."

Holiday Wales The 6-month-old fledgling was missing for the last two days, but biologists hoped it was merely off testing its wings. Hopes were dashed when the bird was found just below the sandstone cave where it hatched in April.

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Cottage Holiday In Wales The cause of death is unknown, and the condor will be sent to the San Diego Zoo for an autopsy. There are two remaining chicks in the refuge, which is near Fillmore.

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Accommodation Holiday Wales The transmitter on the bird's wing stopped sending signals, and officials suspect the condor either died from lead poisoning or by gunfire.

Holiday Last Minute Wales If it was lead poisoning, the adult could have passed it on to the chick when feeding it, biologists said.

Catering Holiday Self Wales The chick's hatching was hailed as a watershed event, a validation of a controversial captive-breeding program that boosted condor numbers from 15 to almost 200 over the last 20 years. The chick would have been the first in a new generation of wild condors soaring the skies from Baja California to Big Sur.

Holiday Wales Walking But while condors have been decapitated by power lines, poisoned by antifreeze and pecked to death by other condors, this fatality may be the hardest to take.

Family Holiday Wales "We are all pretty distraught," said Bruce Palmer, coordinator of the condor project for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. "Any number of things could have happened. Whether there was a connection between the chick's death and the male, we don't know. There was no obvious cause of death when it was discovered."

Holiday Riding Wales Palmer visited the isolated region of sandstone pinnacles in the Sespe Condor Refuge hoping to watch the chick first leave the nest. But he believes he was a day late. Biologists say young condors learning to fly will often do a sort of controlled crash landing into a tree or bush and wait for days before leaving.

Adventure Holiday Wales "I felt personally attached to it," Palmer said.

Holiday Park South Wales But while the loss of two birds was a tragedy, Palmer said it wasn't a setback for the program, which will be releasing three condors in Baja California on Wednesday and has refuges in Big Sur, Los Padres and the Vermilion Cliffs near the Grand Canyon. There are 73 condors in the wild and 132 in captivity. The goal is for two populations of 150 each with 15 breeding pairs in California and Arizona.

Cottage Holiday Wales "I don't think there is a greater impact, it's more of a personal disappointment," Palmer said. "Fledgling mortality is greatest when they leave the nest. It could have encountered coyotes or golden eagles."

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Holiday Wales Mike Wallace, condor recovery team leader, said both mother and father were feeding the chick so it didn't starve. He said the father may have regurgitated lead pellets or bullets while feeding the chick.

Cottage Holiday In Wales "If it turns out to be lead poisoning, we will move one step further on this," Wallace said. "If we find we are losing an abnormally high number of birds because of lead poisoning or anything else, we have the moral responsibility to mitigate that."

Caravan Holiday In Wales U.S. Fish and Wildlife advocates the creation and use of non-lead bullets and urges hunters to bury the gut piles of animals they shoot with lead bullets. Yet they don't want to instigate a fight with hunters or the National Rifle Assn.

Camping Holiday Wales "They are applying a Band-Aid and not treating the disease," said David Clendenen, a critic of the condor program and former lead biologist for the Fish and Wildlife Service at Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge. "Fish and Wildlife is not confronting the lead issue at all. All you hear about is how successful they are, but they don't have anything near a self-sustaining population of birds."

Accommodation Holiday Wales Wallace agrees that lead could doom the birds. But he thinks high numbers increase the birds' chances of survival.

Holiday Last Minute Wales "Emotionally, you can't escape the fact that we all got really jazzed about this bird, and to this point it has been a huge success story," Wallace said. "And to have the first chick in the wild die is an emotional blow."

Catering Holiday Self Wales Janet Hamber has weathered death and disappointment during her 26 years as a condor biologist.

Holiday Wales Walking She watched chicks swept off nests by winds. She was there when six condors, considered the best hope for breeding, vanished without a trace. And she saw a chick accidentally killed by a fellow biologist.

Family Holiday Wales "The ups and downs are huge," she said. "But if we don't try, then we'll never succeed at anything."

Holiday Riding Wales By David Kelly
Los Angeles Times - 10/5/2002

Topic: Birding

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