California condor survey field notes, v1477
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California Condor Eben Mcmillan 26 February 1964 The condor flew down and alighted near the same jack- rabbit that it had been near at 10:52 A.M. It again walked around the carcass, looking towards it very suspiciously. A raven came down and passed close to this Condor before it lit on the ground. As this raven flew by the Condor ducked down and dodged to the side. Both the Condor and raven flew into the air at 10:55 A.M. and returned uphill to circle above where Eagle and other raven are feeding on deer carcass. After circling here a few moments the condor returned to hover above the lower jackrabbit carcass near which it had previously lit. The Eagle left the deer carcass and flew down to where the condor was hovering above the lower carcasses at 10:58 A.M. The condor then flew uphill and lit on the ground about fifteen feet from the deer carcass. As the Condor was standing looking at the deer carcass, the Eagle returned from below and dove at the Condor that immediately took wing and was chased a short distance by the Eagle. The Eagle then flew down and moving slowly past the lower Jackrabbit carcass, which the Condor had lit a few minutes before, and into the wind and heading downhill, it grasped this rabbit carcass in its talons and very slowly, with no flapping of the wings, raised the carcass off the ground, gliding downhill into a stiff breeze from the east, it carried the carcass down about one quarter mile where it went in among thick oak trees and disappeared. This at 11:00 A.M. The Condor that had continued to remain hovering above the baits landed on the ground near another of the lower—