California condor survey field notes, v1476
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California Condor Eben Mcmillan 10 September Watching, a distance of about 175 Yards from our position and also where the Pickup Truck was parked in open view. It is also worthy of that when circling the area before dropping it food on the Carcasses, the Condor would swing to 200 Yards of this position where Ian and I out on open ground with the pickup truck the open also. Some minutes after the above mentioned Condor flew down Canyon and lit in tree opposite us, Condor flew from the area of the Carcasses and Pumping its way down Canyon alighted on the same limb as did this former bird. It was now we could plainly see that the last bird to come to this location was a ring-neck immature. It is to the inside of the adult bird on the limb and farthest away from where we sat. This Ring-Necked bird frequently stretched its neck out, and down Giving us a perfect opportunity to see the reddish Pink of its lower Neck contrasted against the black Grey of its headskin that only showed the dark where it covered the skull bones. Another Adult Condor that had flown up from the Canyon bottom where Carcasses were and alighted on a dead Pine snag above, and East, of the pine, where the Adult and Black-headed young perched was now joined by another Condor that also flew up from below and after alighting, showed plainly, as it cleaned its neck on the limb on which it sat, that it was a ring-necked bird. Thus three adult Condors sat in separate locations after having come from the area where the Cow Carcasses lay and each of them was separately joined by three immature birds