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Granite Station
California Condor
Eben McMullan
18 September 1963
Sick Condor
in the case of a veterinarian in Bakersfield, California.
1960
ON or about 24 June 1960 the son of Warren and
Frances Stockton came upon a Condor near the
water hole that is just across the roadway and
down valley about one quarter mile from the Wal
Stockton home. The son came to the Stockton home
and informed his parents that the condor wa
at the waterhole and apparently could not fly,
elder Stocktons returned to the waterhole with
son and attempted to drive the Condor up ONTO
a nearby hillside in order that it could get air--
should lack of a launching site be the trouble.
But even with a downhill start the Condor could
not just set off the ground. Mr. Warren Stockton told
me he shot at least two cottontail Rabbits
which he was quite sure the Condor ate. The son who
also supposed to have fed rabbits to this Condor.
The Game warden was informed of this Condor's
on 27 September. Two men, one a Game Warden from
Bakersfield, came and tossing a canvas over the
Condor took it to the Mona Curver residence where
Mrs. Curver banded this Condor and from there
was taken to the office of a veterinarian in
Bakersfield and where Mr. Stockton heard it
subsequently had died.
Warren Stockton said the above mentioned Condor
Never at anytime showed signs of being pugnacious
when they were around it. It always appeared docile
he told me. He thought this Condor had something wrong with it.
Warren Stockton told me that, when as a boy, he
would ride through the hills about Granite Station
would see several Coyotes. He has not observed
but two Coyotes, in the Granite Station area,
(Coyotes)