Sespe Condor Sanctuary
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The Sespe Condor Sanctuary is a 53,000-acre wildlife refuge in the Topatopa Mountains, in northeastern Ventura County, California. It is within the Sespe Wilderness in the southern Los Padres National
The Topatopa Mountains within the Sespe Condor Sanctuary
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
Sespe Condor Sanctuary
…Sespe Wilderness in the southern Los Padres National Forest. The United States Forest Service established the Sespe Condor Sanctuary in 1947 for the California condor, an endangered species which is the largest living bird in North America. On January 14, 1992, two captive-bred California condors and two Andean condors…
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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