3rd Condor Chick May Have Hatched in Wild

A third condor chick is believed to have hatched this week in Ventura County’s back country, further demonstrating to biologists that their recovery efforts for the endangered birds are working.

The egg had been monitored by biologists with the California Condor Recovery Plan for the last eight weeks and was reportedly hatched Tuesday near the Sespe Condor Sanctuary of the Los Padres National Forest, north of Fillmore.

Biologists with the recovery effort want to establish two separate populations of condors--one in California and one in Arizona, each with 150 birds and at least 15 breeding pairs.