Calif. Condor Egg Hatches At Pinnacles - Biologists Celebrate Milestone Hatching

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Calif. Condor Egg Hatches At Pinnacles
Biologists Celebrate Milestone Hatching
POSTED: 12:33 pm PDT April 7, 2010
UPDATED: 12:47 pm PDT April 7, 2010


PINNACLES NATIONAL MONUMENT, Calif. -- For the first time in more than a century, a California condor chick has hatched inside the federal park that once was the species' domain.

Biologists at Pinnacles National Monument, south of Hollister, are celebrating the milestone.

The hatching of the chick, whose sex has not yet been determined, is the latest development in the slow recovery of the endangered birds.

The hatchling will be raised by a female released in 2004 in the Central California park and a male released the same year along the Big Sur coast. The couple produced an egg that ended up not being viable, but biologists replaced it with another fertile condor egg.

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This photo provided by the National Park Service shows a nesting California condor on Friday, March 5, 2010, in a cranny near the High Peaks Trail in Pinnacles National Monument, Calif. Biologists at Pinnacles are celebrating the first condor egg laid by a mating pair in more than a century. Park spokesman Carl Brenner said a condor pair released in the park in 2004 at Big Sur had been observed engaged in courtship behavior earlier this year. 'They are now the proud parents of a small egg,' Brenner said.
(AP Photo/National Park Service, John Maio)

[The Wielding Truth]

1. Hurray! Hope it makes it to adulthood and hope they have many more.