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Thanks to one of the most intensive and expensive last-ditch conservation efforts in history, the California Condor was pulled back from the brink. And proving that we could save a species even at the very final hour may have changed the field of conservation, forever.
Endlings portrait illustrations are by Zoe Keller. You can find out more about her and her work here: https://www.zoekeller.com/
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Sources:
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https://bloom.bio/news/2021/4/16/the-last-wild-condor
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https://www.nps.gov/subjects/condors/understandingcondors.htm
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0508529102#sec-2
https://newsroom.wcs.org/News-Releases/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/24509/Bronx-Zoo-Uses-Innovative-Technique-to-Hand-Raise-a-King-Vulture-Chick-with-a-Puppet.aspx
http://www.condortales.com/california-condor/what-happened-to-the-condor.html
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/condors/understandingcondors.htm
https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/5210505
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320715300173
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3396531/
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241127-bringing-back-californias-mighty-condor
https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Birds/California-Condor
https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/extinction-countdown/saving-california-condors-with-a-chisel-and-hand-puppets/
https://timeline.sdzwa.org/condor-puppet/
https://www.nature.com/news/2007/070806/full/news070806-3.html
https://www.audubon.org/magazine/day-146-its-bird-its-plane
https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Birds/California-Condor
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-may-02-me-condor2-story.html
https://www.fws.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2026-02/2025-california-condor-population-status_508-compliant.pdf
https://www.fws.gov/media/graph-cause-death-condors-1992-2022
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-69617-4
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320724000089
https://www.flightglobal.com/north-america/2022/09/gulfstream-pitches-g400-at-large-cabin-market-sweet-spot/
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Images:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UonRlU5gM8LO_OlWxtE0A7CFUHDgLvBrIZyyTuaX5t8/edit?tab=t.0
Endlings portrait illustrations are by Zoe Keller. You can find out more about her and her work here: https://www.zoekeller.com/
Wondering if we used AI to create graphics (or thumbnails or scripts!) for this video? Nope! Every Complexly video is lovingly, painstakingly human-made.
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#BizarreBeasts #condor
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Sources:
https://www.indian.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/TESTIMONY%20OF%20THE%20YUROK%20TRIBE.pdf
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2021/04/20/last-california-condor-in-the-wild-was-captured-in-1987/
https://bloom.bio/news/2021/4/16/the-last-wild-condor
https://www.friendsofcondors.org/the-condors/0021
https://www.history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/histpublications/files/08238-alagona_2004_jhb.pdf
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/California_Condor/overview
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/tracing-roots-california-condor-1341
https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/sites/default/files/D'Elia.Haig_.CaliforniaCondorsinthePacificNorthwest.pdf
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-04-20-mn-1161-story.html
https://www.osupress.oregonstate.edu/blog/california-condors-in-pacific-northwest
https://www.kalw.org/show/crosscurrents/2019-08-06/program-to-save-the-california-condor-from-extinction-is-making-strides
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/saving-the-california-condor.html
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/condors/understandingcondors.htm
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0508529102#sec-2
https://newsroom.wcs.org/News-Releases/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/24509/Bronx-Zoo-Uses-Innovative-Technique-to-Hand-Raise-a-King-Vulture-Chick-with-a-Puppet.aspx
http://www.condortales.com/california-condor/what-happened-to-the-condor.html
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/condors/understandingcondors.htm
https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/5210505
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320715300173
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3396531/
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241127-bringing-back-californias-mighty-condor
https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Birds/California-Condor
https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/extinction-countdown/saving-california-condors-with-a-chisel-and-hand-puppets/
https://timeline.sdzwa.org/condor-puppet/
https://www.nature.com/news/2007/070806/full/news070806-3.html
https://www.audubon.org/magazine/day-146-its-bird-its-plane
https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Birds/California-Condor
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-may-02-me-condor2-story.html
https://www.fws.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2026-02/2025-california-condor-population-status_508-compliant.pdf
https://www.fws.gov/media/graph-cause-death-condors-1992-2022
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-69617-4
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320724000089
https://www.flightglobal.com/north-america/2022/09/gulfstream-pitches-g400-at-large-cabin-market-sweet-spot/
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Images:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UonRlU5gM8LO_OlWxtE0A7CFUHDgLvBrIZyyTuaX5t8/edit?tab=t.0
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