California Condor
Common
Name: California Condor (CACO)
Scientific
Name:
Gymnogyps californianus
Global/Continental
Conservation Status: IUCN
2004 Red List – CR (Critically Endangered)
National-level
Conservation Status:
U.S.
– Endangered Species Act – Endangered;
Mexico
- Normas Oficiales Mexicanas (NOM) para la Proteccion Ambiental (Official
Mexican Standards for Environmental Protection) - Endangered
Key
Reference(s):
BNA No. 610 (Snyder and Schmitt 2002);
U.S.
Recovery Plan (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 1996)
Distribution:
Reintroduced into the wild in s
California
(
Los
Padres
National Forest
) in 1992 and n
Arizona
(
Grand Canyon
area) in 1996. Resident
formerly (last living birds removed from the wild in 1987) in the coastal
ranges of California from Monterey and San Benito counties south to
Ventura County, ranging, at least casually, north to Santa Clara and San
Mateo counties, and east to the w slope of the Sierra Nevada (north as far
as Fresno County) and the Tehachapi Mountains, with breeding sites
apparently confined to Los Padres National Forest in Santa Barbara,
Ventura, and extreme n Los Angeles counties.
Formerly resident (before 1900) along the Pacific coast and in part
inland west of Cascade-Sierra Nevada ranges, apparently from sw British
Columbia south to n Baja California (although there are no confirmed
breeding records outside California) (AOU 1998).
Habitat
Associations:
Mountainous country at low & moderate elevations, especially
rocky & brushy areas with cliffs for nest sites; forages in
grasslands, oak savanna, mountain plateaus, ridges & canyons (AOU
1998)
Source(s)
of Research/monitoring Needs: BNA No.
610 (Snyder and Schmitt 2002); PIF Monitoring Needs document (Partners in
Flight Science Committee 2004)
PIF
Continental Plan Monitoring Needs Category: **
(Long-term population trend monitoring considered adequate, but some
issues (e.g., bias) may not be accounted for)
RESEARCH/MONITORING NEEDS (source(s) of needs)
NOTE: see U.S. Recovery
Plan for additional research/monitoring needs.
Monitoring
- Priority
monitoring action – NOTE: Existing
surveys provide acceptable data at the continental level (PIF
Monitoring Needs doc)
- Second
priority monitoring action – Maintain existing species-specific
surveys (PIF Monitoring Needs doc)
Invasives/Exotics/Disease/Parasites/Contaminants
- Research
to address excessive mortality in released birds (e.g. lead poisoning
and other toxic substances) (BNA)
Captive Breeding/Reintroduction
- Research
to address behavioral problems in released birds (e.g. human-oriented
behavior) (BNA)
[Link
to References]
[Link
to PIF Bird Conservation Plans]
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