FW: [wsbn] condor at Mesa Verde (Montezuma Co.) news story

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JOYCE

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Apr 17, 2015, 2:37:28 PM4/17/15

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California Condor is not currently on the state list.
Joyce Takamine
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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 07:07:26 -0600
Subject: [wsbn] condor at Mesa Verde (Montezuma Co.) news story

http://cortezjournal.com/article/20150416/NEWS01/150419855/The-Lost-Condor:-Man-finds-rare-Grand-Canyon-bird-near-Cortez

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Tom Wilberding

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Apr 17, 2015, 5:29:50 PM4/17/15

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In Sept 2014 the ABA loosened its rules about counting a California Condor. http://listing.aba.org/reintroduced-indigenous-species/
The key question whether to count a California Condor, assuming you follow ABA rules, seems to be, "Does this bird belong to a condor population that has successfully hatched young in the wild?"
At the above website the ABA lists four condor populations that have such a confirmed wild hatching. If N8, the recent Colorado find, belongs to one of these populations, I believe it is ABA countable.
I searched the California Condor North American Studbook (http://tiny.cc/ctq7wx) and cannot find N8, so am at a dead end. Perhaps the CBRC will pursue this and let us know what it finds. Will California Condor become number 499 on the Colorado list?