California condor survey field notes, v1476
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p. 327 -Continued- 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)