Tom's Canyon Condor Cam~ Mom shows her little condor chick~5:22 PM 2022/05/14

live Endangered California Condors Nesting at Tom's Canyon | Cornell Lab The California Condor cam is a collaboration between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Santa Barbara Zoo, the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology, and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. *********************************** This year's California Condor Cam experience focuses on a new nest in Tom's Canyon, featuring #462 (male) and #846 (female). Read on to learn about their breeding histories. #462 was wild-hatched in 2008 by foster parents, male #247 and female #79 out of a Huttons Bowl nest, the same territory featured in last year's Condor Cam. #462 has nested twice before in 2018 and 2020; both times in Tom's Canyon with previous mate, female #594. The pair successfully fledged chicks, female condor #926 and male condor #1048. Condor #1048 fledged at the end of 2020 when he was chased out of his nest by male condor #374 and was raised post-fledge solely by #462. This is five-year old #846's first year nesting. #846 also fledged out of Huttons Bowl in 2016 by parents #374 and female condor #79 from the same cavity that was live streamed last year. #846 is famous for taking a long-range flight up to Mt. Whitney in 2020. Other interesting facts: Male condor #374 paired with #462's previous mate, female condor #594 over the 2021 breeding season and their nest was last year's live streamed Condor Cam in Huttons Bowl. -#462 and #846 were both raised by female condor #79, who was #462's foster parent and #846 biological parent. -Male condor #247, who pulled last year's Huttons Bowl chick from its nest (#374 and #594's chick), is #462's foster parent. Video captured & edited by liznm Courtesy of Cornell Lab Bird Cams:    • Live Endangered California Condors Nesting...   Cornell Lab:    / @cornellbirdcams