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The California condor
has been described as a bird
"with one wing in the grave."
Flying on wings nearly ten feet wide from tip to tip, these birds thrived on the carcasses of animals like woolly mammoths. Then, as humans began dramatically reshaping North America, the continent's largest flying land bird started disappearing. By the beginning of the twentieth century, extinction seemed inevitable.
But small groups of passionate individuals refused...
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2013
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Two sisters, Anna and Emma, along with their parents work together to save and reintroduce the Californian condors back into the wild. Learning of and from the condors, their lives are unique in their growing understanding that if they do not take care of the life surrounding us, we will in the end face the possibility of our own extinction. The California condors have shown the very beauty of life itself. As long as they soar the sky, there will...
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In April 1987, the last wild California condor was captured and taken into captivity along with the other twenty-six remaining birds of his kind. Having roamed the skies of what is now North and Central America for thousands of years, many people thought these remarkable, distinguished birds would never fly freely again. But never say never.
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