Condors with Green Tags

 

Condors with green wing tags are "700" birds. This means that a green tag with a 45 on it would be condor 745.

Also on this page are juvenile condors with temporary ID tags. When condors hatch in the wild, biologists try to enter the nests and tag the young birds at about four months old. However, some nests are too dangerous or inaccessible to enter, so the chicks fledge (learn to fly) at about six months old with no wing tags. When that happens, biologists have to wait until the untagged condor comes to one of the trapping sites so it can get a wing tag and transmitter before getting released again.

After these untagged condors are caught, biologists send a blood sample out for DNA testing to confirm who the bird is. Instead of being held in captivity for weeks while we confirm their identity, these condors are released with temporary green tags and then recaptured later so they can recieve the correct tag.

 

Condor 745 perched.

Tim Huntington - webnectar.com

745

Hatched: 3/25/14 from a wild nest in Los Padres National Forest
Sex: Male
Current Mate: none, but he is trying hard to find himself a female
Parents: Condor 310 (deceased 2020) and Ventana Wildlife Society condor 219Fun Fact: Quickly made friends with the rest of the flock once he learned to fly and followed his parents to Pinnacles and Big Sur. As an adult, he spends a majority of his time on the coast.

 

1308

Hatched: 4/29/2024 in a wild nest outside of the park
Sex: Female
Parents: Condors 800 and 747
Fun Fact: Biologists confirmed 1308’s successful fledge when nearby landowners emailed a photo of 747 and an untagged juvenile together near her nest! She was the first of the 2024 chicks to be handled post-fledge and is currently rocking a temporary ID tag of green 14 until they trap her again to give her proper tags. The biologists have not photographed her yet.