California condor survey field notes, v1477
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California Condor Eben McMillan 3 June 1964 Suspected by the Stocktons and Mrs. Mona Curver, who banded it. Dr. Stager stated that this Condor, that is recorded in his Notes as 12 June 1962, was in very poor condition when it reached his office, it only weighing [illegible] thirteen pounds at that time. He also stated that the liver of this bird was in a very degenerated shape, this having been due, Dr. Stager thought, to disease or poison. This Condor Nevertheless made up into a wonderful study skin and remains, I think, as the most satisfactory specimen from which valuable color data and feather development can be obtained, of any specimen I have yet seen. It was in full adult plumage and the head was all orange. Dr. Stager stated that the best of his recollection, the 1947 Condor from the Bakersfield, Kern, Co. area had been caught in a trap and had flown into a nearby tree where the trap had become lodged in between limbs of the tree, thereby hanging the bird by its leg when it tried to fly again. He also thought this Condor had been alive when found, but very near dying from the ordeal. Nevertheless it weighed 20 pounds when put on the scales after coming into Dr. Stager's possession. Dr. Stager understands the threat to all wildlife by the multitude of hunters that swarm, particularly the public lands, during hunting season. He recognizes this to the extent that, he himself, never ventures forth onto public lands during the hunting seasons. That is, public lands where hunting is permitted by the public with no regulations as to numbers. Dr. Kenneth Stager stated that during 1960 and 1961 he had done-