Field notes, v1400
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Gymnogyps alifornianus 28 January 1976 San Francisco Calif. ed The Princess (San Benito Co.) and talked to a man named Haine who works there. Haine said he had seen no condors there for 20 years. In 1893, Haine said, some deer hunters took an egg there, & part of the wooden scaffold they built to reach the same nest was still standing. Nell was told of the Kopper Canyon nest locale by a certain party about whom Nell is very secretive. This party is apparently a collector who was in the area in 1940 & reported an egg in the nest on March 14, 1940. The egg was found in 1946 on April 3 by Hill. April 4 a goat was put out on the rocks near Oscar's nest. On April 6 when the group was returning to the area, & condors were near the carcass, 2 or 3 on trees nearby, & others in the air (22 to 24 total). The carcass had been carved down to skin & bones. (Forging about feeding from al Wool's notes). Later a deer carcass was put out near the goat - Don Bleuty obtained photos of condors feeding on this carcass (turkey vultures & golden eagles too). On April 7, 1945, 7 dead hawk eggs were collected from the cliff above Hill's nest. Hill has had some corresponden