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California Condor
Eben McMillan
1 May 1964
Detail these defects. However the following were noted.
1 adult Condor:
Fourth primary of left wing missing.
1 adult Condor:
Gap in right wing close to body.
Then of course the juvenile Spot-in-the-wing bird.
The following diagram is to give some idea as to the
location and shape of these spots.
Immature spot-in-wing-Condor.
This juvenile Condor could not have been much over
one year old, if any. It showed poor capabilities in
flight and at times when hit by side currents when
circling it would be visibly disturbed. Also one adult
Condor seemed to remain with it continually and once
when this adult Condor had flown and alighted atop
a nearby Oak tree another adult Condor came
in and ran the immature bird away from the Calf
Carcase, while this act was in progress the adult bird
flew down from the tree and attacked the adult that
had run the juvenile bird away from the Carcase.
First adult Condor and juvenile then dragged Calf Carcase
over hill out of sight. Second adult remained in sight, on
ridge for some time.
I then drove up and put out the Carcase of
another dead Calf he had found yesterday. This about
food