California condor survey field notes, v1476
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Eben Midmillan California Condor-Cont. 22.Feb.1963 There seems little doubt that this bird we Observed in the Navajo at 12:00 p.m. was the same bird we saw on the Navajo ridge an hour earlier in the day. The head was not observed to be bright Yellow when we saw this bird at 11:00 A.M. even though White was detected under the wings. In the Navajo one hour later, this birds head was very orange and the white under the wings appeared very white. Did the dull light of the Navajo situation make the orange head difficult to identify, or can the bird go through color changes in the skin pigments on its chead to a lesser or greater degree? The Navajo bird circled about the low hills for about 10 minutes and then was seen no more as it disappeared behind these hills in the direction of the San Juan Ranch. food In the area where a sheep camp is located in the lower Navajo valley there were more than 20 dead adult sheep and at least as many lambs. At the sheep Camp on the Navajo ridge where the Condor was first sighted there were more than 8 adult Sheep Carcasses and more than 10 dead Lamb carcasses- at the main sheep camp on the San Juan river below La Panza bridge more than 40 dead lambs were seen and more than 10 adult sheep. The Camp tender told me he thought it the result of some Poison grass, A shepherd told me he thought it to be Caused from Not enough glass. - over -