In hopes of saving the species, conservationists started a captive breeding program. It was the first species protected under the U.S. By the mid-1900s only 30 remained in the wild. In the late 1800s they lived all the way from British Columbia to Baja California. I’d read about condors years before we moved to California, but never imagined I’d see one in the wild. A red-tailed hawk could fit on one wing!” “Condors! Their wingspan is nine and a half feet. The park newsletter had the answer: “The condors are back.” But there was something different about the three birds soaring over the meadow: so graceful, so HUGE. We love watching hawks, so this was a bonus to the forests’ majesty. We were driving home from our first trip to the redwood parks in Northern California.
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