Lots of updates and some new chicks! Atlantic Puffin – Seal Island, Maine – Check out this adorable Puffling! Northern Royal Albatross – New Zealand – the chick who hatched on January 30 is hanging out waiting for mom or dad to come back from days of fishing for a meal. West End Bald Eagles – Catalina, CA […]
Vultures may not be the cutest or the most beautiful of birds, but they are incredibly efficient disposers of carcasses and maintainers of a healthy environment and a keystone species. A flock of 100 vultures can completely clean up a 100-pound carcass in 3 minutes. Quick clean-up means there is less chance of disease spreading […]
California Condor chick #1111 could be called an over-achiever. The offspring of the same birds who had the 1000th Condor chick, this 4.5-month-old young bird took flight about 6 weeks before most of his cousins will. His parents in Zion National Park have been together 4 years, and #1111 is their 4th chick. They will care […]