Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
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With a dip of its wings and a short dive
it would sail on.
When this bird had traveled so far up the
San Juan River that it was rather difficult
to keep sight of in the glass, it suddenly
turned about and came soaring back on
a direct course down the San Juan River,
never stopping to circle and maintaining a
steady speed that soon brought it out to
the place above the river where the La
Panza Bridge crosses. Thinking this bird
to be heading for the dead sheep that
was lying on the flat ½ mile below the
bridge I drove to that place in hopes
of finding the bird there. I should mention
that when I first sight of this bird it was
then 2:40 p.m.
Not finding any birds about this sheep, in
fact when I walked up to investigate the
presence of any Condor at this sheep carcass,
I noticed one of its legs waving in the
air. Upon closer examination I found this
sheep was not dead, but had been lying
there since early morning still capable of
moving its hind foot now and then. It could
possibly go on this way and some Herder
could find an eagle or Coyote starting to
eat on it and not knowing it was helplessly
incapacitated, except for a movement now and
then, spread the word that Predators had killed
it.
Returning to the highway and driving west
I passed the area where the 1st Condor had