Wild California Condor Caught in Photo
Series: September 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
From: Pat Maxwell
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Not long ago, a kindergartener snapped a photo of a rare bird! Gabriel Gottfried spotted a large, dark-colored bird perched in a tree near his home in Topanga Canyon -- a rugged, mountainous area northeast of Los Angeles. He grabbed a digital camera and managed to photograph the bird as it flew away. Experts say it was probably the first time a California condor has been documented in Topanga Canyon since 1898...
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Not long ago, a kindergartener snapped a photo of a rare bird! Gabriel Gottfried spotted a large, dark-colored bird perched in a tree near his home in Topanga Canyon -- a rugged, mountainous area northeast of Los Angeles. He grabbed a digital camera and managed to photograph the bird as it flew away. Experts say it was probably the first time a California condor has been documented in Topanga Canyon since 1898...
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Don Sterba
Posted on October 11, 2008 at 09:59 AM | Permalink
Review of Wild California Condor Caught in Photo
This engaging story is based upon a misidentification. It is easy to prove that the bird in the photo cannot be a condor, and here is an early photo analysis from Nov. 2006:
http://www.topangamessenger.com/articles.asp?SectionID=7&ArticleID=2258
Further investigations (e.g. by boosting the photo's brightness level) by me and others have lead to the conclusion that the bird in the photo is a Red-tailed Hawk. But the general information on condors that forms the main body of this PRX piece is accurate and deserves to be widely disseminated.