California Condor Experience Experiments 
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 30, 2011
The lagoon outside offered other experiences too. South of the city you’ll find rich birding around the Bay and further afield you’ll reach the soaring California Condors of Big Sur and Pinnacles. So still that a Red-shouldered Hawk once used me as cover while sneaking up on some pigeons. I was transfixed.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2015
There are many charismatic endangered birds that capture people’s hearts and imaginations: the colossal California Condor , the evocative Red-crowned Crane , and the adorable Spoon-billed Sandpiper come to mind. In November 2010, I backpacked for fifty days via the reasonably good bus system in Ecuador.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2015
There are many charismatic endangered birds that capture people’s hearts and imaginations: the colossal California Condor , the evocative Red-crowned Crane , and the adorable Spoon-billed Sandpiper come to mind. There are certain birding experiences that stay with you forever. And that was it.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 13, 2018
Given my west coast experience, I have made dedicated birding trips to several of the more predictable birding hotspots. I’ve also been on pelagic birding trips on both coasts, out of Half Moon Bay and Monterey, California; Newport, Oregon; and Hatteras, North Carolina. Another is California Condor in the Grand Canyon.).
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2024
Osborn, a passionate field biologist who participates to the core of her being three re-introduction projects aimed at saving three very different, endangered species: Peregrine Falcon, Hawaiian Crow (‘Alala)*, and California Condor. She crafts her prose with a visual immediacy that bring you directly into her experience.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
She’s contemplated California Condors here before, but Passenger Pigeons seem to resonate most with her. So touched by the experience that I cried, I’ve only seen one since, his body preserved in some formal likeness of what he once had been. Author Sherrida Woodley thinks deeply about dearly departed birds.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 2, 2012
The new edition adds 11 species, birds such as Zone-tailed Hawk, Short-tailed Hawk, and California Condor that are only seen in specific areas of North America. The excellence of Hawks in Flight is rooted in the expertise, experience and skills of all three authors. The writing style is both informative and absorbing.
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