California condor survey field notes, v1477
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California Condor Ebendichmillan 14 September 1964 but it stayed so near the morning sun that I did not waste any film on it. We drove to area under bent pine and following a track where the drop calf carcass had been dragged down the steep hill southward from the position under the bent pine where Mrs. Farnsworth had noted it yesterday morning, we found this carcass, completely cleaned of all meat and turned inside out and left 200 yards from its original position in the canyon below. During the course of this dragging the condors had pulled it through a dead tree, under an oak bush thence down the bottom of a steep defile through tall dry wild oats to the bottom where it was found. While we were investigating the calf carcass another condor flew in making four birds in the air at once one of which was [illegible] a sub-adult, probably the bird he saw perched in the tree last evening. This sub-adult in flight had a strong gap in the center of the right wing. (Check this with photo-) Also the first bird we saw this morning had two moderate gaps in the left wing secondaries and a slight gap in right wing 2/3 way out from body - See below- 1st bird Sub-adult- 4th bird