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Gymnogyps californianus
May 28, 1947
Berkeley, Calif.
"Keyoke" of a mountain quail. Willmann said
condor sometimes flew back & forth in small
valleys as if having difficulty in getting out.
Some must have had a wingspread of 20 ft., he
said. Once he saw a go bald eagle on the
ground under a tree & a condor diving at it;
the eagle left & the condor landed under the
tree. The Willmann threw stones at the condor
& drove it off. The carcass there was a
coyote with a small hole in its side, heart
& lungs pulled out through the hole. In 1928,
Willmann said, he saw 2 condors near the
west side of San Rafael Mts.. With his mother, about
1941, in Sept. or Oct., he was driving near Jenner
when they saw 2 condors — no doubt, he said —
both he & his mother knew condors. He also
saw 2 on Mt. Diablo in April about 1938, he
said. The Wheats had a pet condor near What
Peak about 1902. Willmann undoubtedly knows
condors & was well versed in the Sonoma
country. His observations were not too accurate,
however, so I doubt his Jenner & Diablo
observations. Stock was grazed in the lower
Sonoma & Santa Cruz in the old days, & up into the
heads of the canyons in dry years. Robert