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The Hawk Conservancy Trust - Rehabilitation
Pygmy Owls to Andean Condors. Veterinary services to The Hawk Conservancy Trust provided by John Chitty BVetMed, CertZooMed, CBiol, MIBiol ...
www.hawk-conservancy.org


USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Staff Profile
S. N. Wiemeyer, J. A. Royle, and M. R. Smith. 2006. Lead poisoning in captive Andean condors (Vultur gryphus). J. Wildl. Dis. 42:772-779. Lance, S. L., J. E. Maldonado, C ...
www.pwrc.usgs.gov


Birds
Many zoos have had some recent success with Andean condors due to a dedicated programme of incubation and hand rearing, but most of the smaller ... in secluded aviaries, out of sight of humans and other birds. The hugely endangered Californian Condors in San Diego never see human beings, and are hand reared from 'condor gloves'.This ...
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Santa Cruz and the Red-Fronted Macaw
He also tells us that Andean Condors have a nest in the area. After an exchange of handshakes, we ... binoculars. I look up and there at eye level is a mature Andean condor flying by. Wow! I run back to the tree under which ... to totally surround us. And as if on cue, the pair of Andean Condors glide overhead. After straining my neck looking upwards, I decide to lay ...
macawlanding.org


The Peregrine Fund - World Center of Birds Of Prey
Fund Wins Zoo Boise Grant for Andean Condor Project Zoo Boise awarded a $16,025 grant today to The Peregrine Fund for a project to study Andean Condors, whose numbers are declining in ... - Eight California Condors Transported to Arizona for Release Arizona’s population of California Condors will increase to 41 with the arrival of eight young condors on 18 January. All eight condors hatched last year ...
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San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Andean Condor
Andean Condor Species Survival Plan. Since 1990, a total of 65 Andean condors, raised in American and Colombian zoos, have been released in Colombia, and condors have also been released in Venezuela and Peru. Andean condors ...
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National Geographic Adventure Mag.: Into the Altiplano
Andean volcanoes that border some of the world's highest and driest ... the mountains to fill a deep valley that formed between two Andean chains as they were pushed up from the seabed. When the ... the Altiplano is hardly devoid of life. Animals and birds thrive here: Condors, herds of alpacas and vicunas, gray foxes and vizcachas all flourish ...
nationalgeographic.com


Thunderbird Stamps
The farmer assumed the bird was an Andean or Californian condor, but ite far greater size and its coloration did not match those ... of White Bear or Marlon Lowe. This is because the teratorns, like their relatives the condors, had very weak feet, incapable of grasping large prey. Probably they did not build nests ...
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Lake Titicaca Bolivia
Ancohuma and Illampu. The Andean region birthed several sophisticated cultures, including the Inca and that of Tiahuanaco, which venerated ... mountain deities apu and their goddess of the earth was venerated as Pachamama. Great condors, traditionally regarded as messengers of the mountain spirits and able to communicate through shamans, ...
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San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: California Condor
Condors to Find New Home in Santa Barbara • Kid Territory: Condor Craft, Build a Bird Nest, The Power of Wind, A Balancing Act, Vulture Vegetable Bites • Animal Bytes: Andean Condor Helping California condors Visiting the San Diego Zoo and the ... to try different items. Wild condors don’t eat every day, so the condors at the Wild Animal Park ...
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