California condor – Kit Stolz

Condors recover, feast on roadkill near Ojai

In an Earth Day editorial this past Sunday, the Star noted that the captive breeding program that brought the California Condor back from near extinction has become so successful that condors in Ventura County are no longer even newsworthy: It was 25 years ago this month that the last free-flying California condor was plucked fromContinue reading “Condors recover, feast on roadkill near Ojai”

Wind turbines threaten condors — or is it vice versa?

Amazing story in Forbes from January, about how a burgeoning wind turbine industry in the Tehachapis may be shut down by the possibility that a wind turbine could kill an endangered California Condor. At this point it’s unknown whether the federally protected bird, which can fly some 200 miles in a day, will avoid hugeContinue reading “Wind turbines threaten condors — or is it vice versa?”