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Nick Komar
Fort Collins CO
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From: Nick Komar <quetzal65@comcast.net>
Date: July 1, 2016 at 6:27:32 PM MST
To: fly83man@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [cobirds] Re: Booby thoughts
Greg makes a good point. A wing-tagged immature condor should be as valid as an immature Western Gull with a leg band, like the one at Prewitt Res.
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Peter Gent wrote:...Finally, someone asked about California Condors. All the birds that have been seen in Colorado have had big wing tags with numbers on them, which means they are released birds. Thus the Records Committee decided not to include this species on the state list. I believe the population is reproducing naturally now, so when one of these birds is seen in Colorado, then it will be added to the state list.
Peter,
The condors at Vermillion Cliffs are reproducing in the wild (as they are at other sites), but the wild-born are trapped, examined, and then tagged just like captive-born birds. Tag numbers and status can be found here -
https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/nature/upload/CondorChart20150703.pdf
It will be a while before we see condors without wing tags.
Greg Mihalik
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