Pinnacles National Park
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Pinnacles National Park is a national park of the United States protecting a mountainous area located east of the Salinas Valley in Central California, about five miles east of Soledad and 80 miles so
Rock formations at Pinnacles National Park
Bear Gulch Reservoir
High Peaks Trail panorama
Entrance to Balconies Cave
California condor
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The California condor is a New World vulture and the largest North American land bird. It became extinct in the wild in 1987 when all remaining wild individuals were captured, but has since been reint
Pinnacles National Park
…visited in spring or fall because of the intense heat during the summer. Park lands are prime habitat for prairie falcons and are a release site for California condors that have been hatched in captivity. Pinnacles was originally established as a national monument in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt, and was…
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Frederick Polydore Nodder's illustration accompanying George Shaw's 1797 species description
A California condor skull
Fossil of the extinct species Gymnogyps amplus from the La Brea Tar Pits