![]() Richard Vogel/AP Show More Show Lessġ2 of20 13 of20 Debbie Sears, a condor keeper, takes Condor chick LA1123 from her temperature controlled enclosure for an afternoon feeding on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, at the Los Angeles Zoo facility. More birds still die in the wild each year than the number of chicks that are born, both in nature and in captivity, and survive annually. Experts say say the species cannot sustain itself without human intervention. The latest breeding efforts to boost the population of North America's largest land bird, an endangered species where there are only several hundred in the wild. Richard Vogel/AP Show More Show Less 11 of20 Debbie Sears, a condor keeper, takes Condor chick LA1123 from her temperature controlled enclosure for an afternoon feeding on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, at the Los Angeles Zoo facility. But with fewer than 350 free-flying birds from the Pacific Northwest to Baja California, Mexico, and the avian flu wreaking havoc on a flock in Arizona and Utah over the last year, captive breeding programs remain fundamental to this endangered species' continued survival. It's egg-hatching season for this year's California condors, the latest in 40 years of conservation efforts to bring these iconic animals from the brink of extinction to living in the wild without human intervention. Richard Vogel/AP Show More Show Lessĩ of20 10 of20 Debbie Sears, a condor keeper, shows a hatched egg from Condor chick LA1123 on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, at the Los Angeles Zoo facility. ![]() Richard Vogel/AP Show More Show Less 8 of20 Debbie Sears, a condor keeper, shows the hatched egg from Condor chick LA1123, Tuesday, May 2, 2023, at the Los Angeles Zoo facility. The latest breeding efforts to boost the population of North America's largest land bird an endangered species where there are only several hundred in the wild come as the avian flu has already killed 20 birds this year. California condors are trapped in a cycle of life and death. Richard Vogel/AP Show More Show LessĦ of20 7 of20 A California condor named Hope, a species ambassador, sits in the sun herself at the Los Angeles Zoo, Tuesday, May 2, 2023. The latest breeding efforts to boost the population of North America's largest land bird – an endangered species where there are only several hundred in the wild – come as the avian flu has already killed 20 birds this year. ![]() Richard Vogel/AP Show More Show Less 5 of20 A California condor named Hope takes to flight at the Los Angeles Zoo, Tuesday, May 2, 2023. They start off small just a few ounces of downy white feathers and a bald head but will hopefully grow into the species' famous 10-foot (3.05-meter) wingspan and ultimately join the population of North America's largest soaring land birds in the wild. and Mexico, chicks are hatching and every baby bird counts. Richard Vogel/AP Show More Show Lessģ of20 4 of20 Debbie Sears, a condor keeper, feeds condor chick LA1123, Tuesday, May 2, 2023, at the Los Angeles Zoo facility. Richard Vogel/AP Show More Show Less 2 of20 Condor chick LA1123 waits for it's feeding in a temperature controlled enclosure at the Los Angeles Zoo on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. ![]() 1 of20 Condor chick LA1123 waits for it's feeding in a temperature controlled enclosure at the Los Angeles Zoo on Tuesday, May 2, 2023.
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