First Condor Born at Pinnacles NP in over 100 Years!

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BruceHildenbrand

Social climber
Mountain View/Boulder
Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 25, 2016 - 01:29pm PT
For the first time in over 100 years a condor has been born at Pinnacles National Park. The nest is at the south end of Machete Ridge. This means that all routes on the south end of the ridge from just past Destiny/Corona all the way around to the Old Original and Hideout are still closed to climbing. Please respect the closure during this historic event.

The closure may be lifted December(2016). It is best to check the Friends of Pinnacles website http://www.pinnacles.org or the NPS website http://www.nps.gov/pinn/index.htm for updates.

Studly

Trad climber
WA
Oct 25, 2016 - 01:47pm PT
Rad!
Jon Beck

Trad climber
Oceanside
Oct 25, 2016 - 03:24pm PT
The new condor is #828. There are over 400 in the wild. Quite a comeback from the days when the population was down to 22. The rangers on condor duty at Pinnacles are a great bunch. A lot of them climb and one of them was even hauling logs up to Upper Crust area on the trail building project this past weekend. The chief ranger (also a climber) was at the event both days and even the park Super showed up to say a few words. Great to see so much cooperation.

cragnshag

Social climber
san joser
Oct 25, 2016 - 05:23pm PT
Not even the buzzards can avoid the reach of social media.
cragnshag

Social climber
san joser
Oct 25, 2016 - 05:33pm PT
Ben Emery

Trad climber
Back and forth the Pacific
Oct 25, 2016 - 05:36pm PT
Great stuff, she's even taken flight:

http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/11/california-condors-chick-born-in-wild-flies-from-nest-at-pinnacles-national-park-for-first-time-in-more-than-100-years/

Stunning birds on the wing, but not exactly an oil painting up close!
clinker

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
Oct 25, 2016 - 05:55pm PT
Yosomighty may be the father.


My favorite selfie ever!
yo-so-mighty

Big Wall climber
salinas, ca
Oct 25, 2016 - 09:05pm PT
Pot, meet kettle. Clink you have the size, just not the manliness.
clinker

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
Oct 26, 2016 - 02:56am PT
No need to furrow your forehead over it. I just don't really buy your story that the condors have been the initiators of the encounters?
Spiny Norman

Social climber
Boring, Oregon
Oct 26, 2016 - 07:55am PT
This is truly awesome news. TFPU!
mcreel

climber
Barcelona
Oct 26, 2016 - 08:12am PT
Awesome! And appropriate, with all that decomposing "rock".
Srbphoto

climber
Kennewick wa
Oct 26, 2016 - 08:48am PT
where's the "like" button
shiro16

climber
Oct 26, 2016 - 11:41am PT
Flight footage
guyman

Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
Oct 26, 2016 - 11:51am PT
This is fantastic.

Last spring I was happy to see one flying right over my place in Moorpark....

Huge birds, so cool.
Gregory Crouch

Social climber
Walnut Creek, California
Oct 26, 2016 - 11:52am PT
Condors!

For those of you interested in such things, here's an article about Condors in the 10 June 1859 issue of The California Farmer and Journal of Useful Sciences.

Two condors feeding on the carcass of a whale must have been quite a sight to see... as would have been seeing 150 condors along the San Benito River at the same time.

Lots of misinformation in there, however.
SteveW

Trad climber
The state of confusion
Oct 26, 2016 - 08:21pm PT

May the new arrival live a long and healthy life!!!!
BruceHildenbrand

Social climber
Mountain View/Boulder
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 28, 2016 - 12:40pm PT
Another baby condor photo from the Machete Ridge nest.

rubberrat

Trad climber
CA
Oct 28, 2016 - 02:32pm PT
clink and Yosomighty - you guys crack me up.
clink and I did some new routes this summer with bird names at Pinns.

Prairie Falcon, Imprint and most appropriately for this thread - Fledgling.

One bird, one bolt. Fledgling 5.7


the albatross

Gym climber
Flagstaff
Oct 28, 2016 - 05:47pm PT
I believe I read somewhere that the Condor project is one of the most expensive animal rehab projects in history. It is good to see some success from the venture.

It's always cool to see them soaring over the deserts and canyons of northern Arizona where they seem to be doing well in the Vermilion Cliffs and nether reaches of the Grand Canyon. A wonderful experience was having one rocket just ten feet over our heads on the summit of a thousand foot tower first ascent in the VC. With a nine foot wingspan they sure do create some noise!

Long live the wild!
Sula

Trad climber
Pennsylvania
Oct 28, 2016 - 06:45pm PT
There are over 400 in the wild.
According to Ben Emery's link, not quite that many:

As of Dec. 31, there were 435 California condors in the world, an increase of nearly 20-fold over the past 30 years. Of those, 268 live in the wild, and 167 live in captivity in places where they are bred and hatched, such as the San Diego Zoo.
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