Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-05-02 | Page 7 | Saving Bird Now Almost Extinct

SAVING SAVING BIRD NOW ALMOST ALMOST EXTINCT I At the national zoo In Washing Washing- Washington Washington ton which Is s under the direction of oC the Smithsonian Institution the condor from California which has been in captivity twenty years ears has as laid an egg ess which Is I valued at because the condor Is a I bird which which which Is becoming extinct A bulletin says Bays that female and two males In Tn In the national zoo with a younger bird held In the zoo too z o in fn Los Angeles are believed to be bethe bethe bethe the only specimens or of o this almost extinct fowl In captivity and It is thought that there are not more than a hundred Individuals left In ina Ina II a wild state In southern and Lower Eventual ex extinction cx- cx Unction seems almost inevitable though this vulture once swarmed over the area between een Lower Cali Cali- California California fornia and tho the Columbia river In Oregon Great numbers of o fossil bones found round In the tho LaBrea area i provo prove that the condor was very common as tar far back as the pleistocene pleistocene cene Describing the bird the bulletin says the tho condor Is related to the turkey vulture or turkey buzzard and feeds largely pon pon carrion It averages four feet In length and weighs from 20 to 23 25 5 pounds Its outstanding characteristic Is it Its I great reat wing spread of more than nine feet which makes of oC it one of ot the most powerful flyers among feathered creatures The general plumage Is black with lighter markings about the wIngs The head and upper neck are bald the skin being brilliant brilliant- brilliantly brilliantly ly tinted In orang orange and re red On the neck a ruff rutt stands out like a collar Male and female are alike in their markings animals Man has caused many and birds to disappear The great greatest est slaughtering was WaB that o of oC the American bison which at one time Ume could be counted by hundreds of thousands thousands In the prairie region Of OC bird life lire the killings has not been so destructive although birds of oC fine lne plumage such the egret have havo almost disappeared