California condor survey field notes, v1477
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California Condor Eben McMillan 28 may 1964 smelling up the Country. He then told Warden Reed and I that the Law had to be enforced if it was to mean anything so for us to go ahead and toss Binkley in jail if there was no other way for us to handle the case. As we finished talking to Mr. Bailey, Mr. Leake and Lee King drove up in a red pickup. Warden Reed asked them if they saw Binkley shoot at the Condor. Mr. Leake said he heard the shot, saw the Condor dive downward, then fly on out to the south, out of sight behind the ridge, but that he did not see a leg hanging down on the bird even though he heard me mention that the Condor had a leg hanging down. Mr. Leake thought I could see the broken leg better with the binoculars. Warden Reed and I then drove to the trailer-house home of Howard Binkley that was located about 150 yards down south of the barn at Ranch Headquarters. Mr. Binkley came out of his Trailer house and readily admitted to Warden Reed that he had shot at the Condor. In answer to Warden Reed's question of why did he do it, Mr. Binkley shrugged his shoulders and said, "I don't know." Mr. Reed then asked him if he did not know it was against the Law to shoot Condor. Binkley said that he thought the bird was a Buzzard. Whereupon he was told by Warden Reed that Buzzards were also protected by law, that no large bird can be shot without breaking the Law excepting a horned Owl. Binkley did not know this to be the case. Warden Reed then issued Howard Binkley a citation to -