California condor survey field notes, v1477
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California Condor Eben McMillan 15 June 1964 The other, must have been within 100 feet of the fellow, Porter, who took the picture, for even with a 6 or 7 inch lens and enlarging in printing it was still - good print. In describing the birds to us Ranger Ed. Morse said they could not have had wingspreads of over six feet. He said they were not big birds. The adult bird in the photograph we were discussing Morse said could not have had a wingspread of over six feet. This being the case he established both birds to be immature - The only strange aspect of these two Condor was that their heads were red and the head of a young bird was supposed to be orange. It was here that Ranger Morse stated that this proved that the Doctor (meaning Dr. Alden H. Miller) was wrong in stating Correcting him about small Condor for those were small Condor and not in any way large like the 10 foot span of the wings of large Condor he has seen. Mr. Morse stated that he was well prepared to estimate distances in the air by working with timber, having to estimate the cheight of trees, this, he thought, has prepared him whereby no one could tell him about distance estimates. "This is one situation where the Doctor was out of place. This is a case where the Doctor was the layman and I was the expert," stated Ranger Morse. Morse thought this was a case where Dr. Miller talked out of turn. "It just goes to show that the experts like the Doctor can be wrong to," he said. In the process of our being enlightened by Ranger—