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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