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Press release from the Yurok Tribe Facebook page:

This week, the Northern California Condor Restoration Program (NCCRP) received seven condors from the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

NCCRP biologists and technicians, along with veterinarians from Sequoia Park Zoo and staff from the Safari Park removed existing placeholder wing tags from the condors, attached new NCCRP wing tags with local identifiers, and provided intravenous fluid to help the birds recover from the long drive from San Diego.

These are the first condors that NCCRP has received from the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. The program has also received birds from the Peregrine Fund’s World Center for Birds of Prey, the LA Zoo, and the Oregon Zoo.

The seven young condors represent the second largest cohort in the NCCRP’s history. The first of the three male and four female birds will be released on August 24, when they will join the NCCRP’s already 24 free-flying condors.

The NCCRP offers a huge heartfelt thanks to the San Diego Zoo Safari Park team for transporting the condors and assisting with the full day of processing. The Safari Park staff were extremely knowledgeable and spent time with the NCCRP staff sharing expertise developed over many decades of rearing this incredible species.

Northern California Condor Restoration Program

The Northern California Condor Restoration Program is a collaboration between the Yurok Tribe and Redwood National and State Parks. The NCCRP is part of the California Condor Recovery Program, which is an international multi-entity effort, led by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, to recover the endangered California condor by establishing robust self-sustaining populations of condors within the historical distribution.

The Yurok Tribe initiated the Pacific Northwest condor reintroduction effort in 2008. To support the condor restoration effort, please visit https://www.yuroktribe.org/yurok-condor-restoration-program.

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