Field notes, v1304
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Gleene, H. 1980 3 December (continued) (Trouble finding road, got stuck, dug out w/ no problems) found the camp of the Condor Project, and found Carla Christensen and Jared Hoffman. Carla had worked on Del Solar's ranch near Almos, and when we showed her the collopistes she remembered seeing these lizards there. Jared, incidentally, had told me the correct colors of Micrurus ischedius and I'm sure that's what he saw; his observation was at 1100AM on an overcast day in the last week of October. The site he showed me was open sand, near a tree. After leaving them, as I was driving E towards the junction of the roads to Sechura and Tarbajeque, I looked toward the sea and saw a condor almost overhead -close enough, I could see the red head and white under wings. As soon as we pulled over and piled out, it moved seaward and out of sight. Arrived Chilago 1830 w/ an almost empty gas tank. (NB: Our collopistes had a palpable stomach mass when caught, so probably had fed that morning).