{"id":522047,"date":"2010-04-09T08:26:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T12:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3272"},"modified":"2010-04-09T08:26:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T12:26:28","slug":"condor-egg-hatches-in-calif-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/522047","title":{"rendered":"Condor egg hatches in Calif. park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100408\/ap_on_re_us\/us_california_condor\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/a\/p\/ap\/20100407\/capt.c8ac0e95264d449482b88235cd871b90-c8ac0e95264d449482b88235cd871b90-0.jpg?x=213&amp;y=160&amp;xc=1&amp;yc=1&amp;wc=409&amp;hc=307&amp;q=85&amp;sig=OCUspdjTYlIEd54hiaO54A--\" width=\"283\" align=\"right\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eenews.net\/Greenwire\/2010\/04\/08\/16\/\" >Greenwire<\/a>: Biologists celebrated the successful hatch of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Energy_profile_of_California,_United_States\">California<\/a> condor  chick in a federal park, a sign of the slow recovery of the species. The  March 24 hatch at Pinnacles National Monument in central California was  the first in more than a century.<\/p>\n<p>However, the celebration was muted because the egg did not belong to  any of the adult birds in the park. It came from a pair of condors in  the San Diego Wildlife Park captive breeding program. Attempts to mate  two condors within the park were unsuccessful; the embryo of an egg  conceived in March died seven days into development.<\/p>\n<p>The egg-sitting process was the first to be viewed by the public  since the condor recovery program began. Biologists had to be careful to  watch the eggs, which can be accidentally destroyed by the condors and  their 10-foot wingspans. The scientists also wanted to ensure that the  birds did not get discouraged by an unsuccessful mating attempt, since  they are hoping to rebuild the population.<\/p>\n<p>In 1982, scientists placed the last 22 California condors in  breeding programs. The population now stands at 350, but the birds are  threatened by hunters and lead poisoning from bullets left in carcasses.  Young condors are often captured and raised in breeding programs  because the wild birds can come too close to humans.<\/p>\n<p>Biologists will perform tests on the hatchling over the next week to  determine its sex. It will live with its parents for a year, and the  adults will wait another two years before producing a new egg (Tracie  Cone, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100408\/ap_on_re_us\/us_california_condor\" >Associated  Press<\/a>, April 7). <strong>&#8211; JP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3272&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3272\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenwire: Biologists celebrated the successful hatch of a California condor chick in a federal park, a sign of the slow recovery of the species. The March 24 hatch at Pinnacles National Monument in central California was the first in more than a century. However, the celebration was muted because the egg did not belong to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}