The AMAZING Quest for California Condors at the Grand Canyon

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  • Опубликовано: 16 дек 2024

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  • @pauraque
    @pauraque 2 года назад +17

    The talking about something not bird related and than instantly turning your head when you hear a bird is so me 😭
    My friend: "So like when do you want to finish our group project"
    Me: "How abou- Well that sounds like a Western Tanager"

  • @beechwoodscalling4090
    @beechwoodscalling4090 2 года назад +5

    You guys have the finest birding videos on youtube!

  • @pandap4ntz
    @pandap4ntz Год назад +1

    Such a great video, I love condors, I love vultures! Could you imagine how amazing it feels to soar over the canyon like these birds do? So majestic. I'm so glad the California condor has been reintroduced, it would be a less magical world without them.

  • @colettejungbluth2651
    @colettejungbluth2651 2 года назад +4

    Awesome find!!!!

  • @raymiemiller1455
    @raymiemiller1455 2 года назад +8

    I'm extremely jealous - I was at the Grand Canyon Village in March of 2021, and while I saw lots of very cool birds I dipped on the condor. I'm still a bit disappointed, although I did see some other cool things including Zone-tailed Hawk, Red Crossbill, Pinyon Jay, Javelina, and Botta's Pocket Gopher. The Bright Angel Trail was covered in a terrifying layer of ice!

    • @BadgerlandBirding
      @BadgerlandBirding  2 года назад +1

      Nice! We were hoping to see some Pinyon Jays but no luck. I can imagine how intimidating the trail would be covered in ice!

  • @mathewfines8727
    @mathewfines8727 9 месяцев назад

    I lived in California in the mid 70s, and used to see California Condors in the sky north of San Francisco, in fairly abundant numbers. I became worried about them over the years and am so happy to hear about the capture and breeding program that saved them from extinction. What truly majestic birds! Thank you for this wonderful video!

  • @aknightthatsaysnee5259
    @aknightthatsaysnee5259 2 года назад +2

    5:53 LOL!
    Derek: "The grandest of all canyons...😃"
    Ryan: "Now, where's the Condors?!😠"
    LOL 👍

  • @music-hx5lf
    @music-hx5lf Год назад +1

    Just discovered your delightful videos.
    Bravissimi (🇮🇹) 👏👏👏👏!!!!
    Keep up the good work!

  • @MrTmiket0007
    @MrTmiket0007 2 года назад +1

    Hello from Montreal! Awesome video like always with so many beautiful birds I haven't seen in live yet, yesterday I saw my first golden crowned kinglet 🐦♥️👍

  • @ryanwashere
    @ryanwashere 2 года назад +1

    Love the info given about #23 and the reintroduction efforts in general. Very interesting!

  • @Florafauneando
    @Florafauneando 2 года назад

    Congratulations for the condor's lifer. Interesting and nice place. Yesterday I've seen an Andean condor in a trip to northwestern Patagonia.

  • @evanoutside3516
    @evanoutside3516 2 года назад +9

    Next time you guys are in the area and want to see more of them flying, I highly recommend checking out the Historic Navajo Bridge and Vermillion Cliffs which are all north of the canyon. Saw a ton of them flying around there when I visited (small plug I have a video about that trip on my channel lol). Just be sure to bring a scope for the cliffs.

    • @Hummingbirder1
      @Hummingbirder1 2 года назад +1

      I'm gonna check that one out, for sure! (I've only seen the California Condor around Big Sur, fall 2013. Got a shitty photo, that I shamelessly inserted in my shitty video from that trip.)

    • @zachmatchinski1764
      @zachmatchinski1764 2 года назад +4

      Definitely recommend the Navajo Bridge. I took a trip to the Grand Canyon this past weekend and stopped there on my way down, as well as back. I saw 4 Condors each time, and the second time I got to see a Condor chick in a cave that was three-four months old

    • @BadgerlandBirding
      @BadgerlandBirding  2 года назад +1

      This was on our list if we didn't see them at the canyon!

    • @BadgerlandBirding
      @BadgerlandBirding  2 года назад

      @@zachmatchinski1764 That sounds adorable.

    • @faretheewell3711
      @faretheewell3711 2 года назад

      Amazing place to see them!

  • @michaelhochstetler8483
    @michaelhochstetler8483 2 года назад +1

    Nice video! I'm hoping to see a condor next year. I'm still stoked after chasing a Solitaire at Magee Marsh this morning!

    • @BadgerlandBirding
      @BadgerlandBirding  2 года назад +1

      Solitaire must be fairly rare for that area. Good find!

  • @somethinginthepines
    @somethinginthepines Год назад +1

    I love Californian Condors, I've been to the Grand Canyon several times and have seen a couple different ones, as well as a juvenile roosting on a cliff edge, who didn't have a tag yet. I do not care how ugly people think vultures and condors are, they are majestic animals.

  • @naturewithgabe
    @naturewithgabe 2 года назад

    This video was epic. Great job, guys!

  • @thorsvenson3530
    @thorsvenson3530 2 года назад +2

    This was great. I get to go birding vicariously through your videos. Thank you!

  • @barbaracole709
    @barbaracole709 2 года назад +2

    I got my lifer mountain chickadee last week in the mountains above Golden, CO. They are cute little birds. So happy for you that you got such good footage of the California condor! They are impressive!

  • @atgames99
    @atgames99 2 года назад

    Another great video! Thanks, guys!!!

  • @faretheewell3711
    @faretheewell3711 Год назад

    Just saw 23 with his mate 97 he was on that same perch! They finally fledged a bird in the wild it was there also a year old and untagged! What an experience!

  • @OspreyFlyer
    @OspreyFlyer 2 года назад +1

    Very interesting video! Good work! 👍

  • @TracyBirds
    @TracyBirds 2 года назад

    Great video. Congrats on the sighting.

  • @doryowen
    @doryowen Год назад +3

    You can tell a condor immediately even at a distance when you spot the big plastic tags on the wings.

  • @dbeachmawmaw
    @dbeachmawmaw 2 года назад

    Very cool adventure guys!! Many birds there at the Grand Canyon!! How cool seeing the Condor above the parking lot then again #23 perched on the small cliff!! Huge bird for sure!!

  • @MRDRZ-au
    @MRDRZ-au Год назад

    The California condor is one of my favourite birds 🐦

  • @ABirdersParadise
    @ABirdersParadise 2 года назад +1

    Glad you got to see them! I'd love to go back at some point, now that I'm actively birding, to see if I can find some.

  • @lynnbyrd9819
    @lynnbyrd9819 10 месяцев назад +1

    Awesome video! I have a story for you. In the summer of 1978, I was driving some back roads about 10 or 12 miles south of Pleasanton , CA. That area was largely undeveloped then. I saw a massive dark-colored bird as I rounded a corner and stopped the car and took a couple of pictures with my old Nikon camera. I assumed it was a big turkey vulture. Another look showed me the wingspan was huge! Then I saw the white markings under the wings. I went back home later that day and looked it up. Obviously, there was no Google or other search engines back then....or even a computer for me to use. I went to a library and saw some books on birds and condors. I looked them up in an old encyclopedia. I had seen a California Condor! I called the DFG and another agency I was referred to at the time. My discovery and excitement, was met with non- belief and skepticism. I had the picture for years, but honestly, haven't seen it in decades. I did mail a copy of that photo, to CA Fish and Game, along with a letter, describing my encounter. I never heard anything back from them. Of course that was before email and more modern methods of communication. I'm still convinced of what I saw some 46 years later.

    • @BadgerlandBirding
      @BadgerlandBirding  10 месяцев назад

      Thanks so much! It’s one of my personal favorites! -Ryan

  • @snowyowl5556
    @snowyowl5556 2 года назад +2

    That thing is insane 😂

  • @pcliff30
    @pcliff30 2 года назад

    Thanks for this great video. Your camera work, narration, and editing are so professional. I always look forward to your postings.

  • @birdingbythebay
    @birdingbythebay 2 года назад

    Awesome THOSE GUYS ARE RARE!

  • @nature_rabbits5370
    @nature_rabbits5370 Год назад +1

    Bushtits are one of my favorite species of birds.

  • @piccadillypie
    @piccadillypie 2 года назад +1

    Zone-tailed hawk was a good find. Congrat's on your lifers!

  • @mr1pearl
    @mr1pearl 2 года назад +2

    Oh a Jordan fan eh 😆 👍

  • @nathanwebb4836
    @nathanwebb4836 2 года назад

    That was awesome! I would love to see what birds I can find in Arizona one day soon.

  • @StellarLimpkin
    @StellarLimpkin Год назад

    Got my lifer Zone-tailed Hawk at Mather Point last May :)

  • @setapart6937
    @setapart6937 2 года назад +5

    This was an excellent video. I didn’t know a thing about California Condors. I hope to see one someday. Learning about their history and the efforts it took to save this species is truly amazing. Is there a website you guys can report your siting of #23? Do you know if efforts are being made to capture and band the ones born in the wild?

    • @BadgerlandBirding
      @BadgerlandBirding  2 года назад +1

      I would imagine they are banding the wild chicks if they know where they are but can't confirm 100%. We made note of the # in eBird. It looks like some particular areas are more interested in people reporting sightings compared to others.

    • @zachmatchinski1764
      @zachmatchinski1764 2 года назад +2

      As long as they know where the Condors are nesting, the Peregrine Fund as well as other organizations hire people to monitor the chicks each day, and they do tag them if at all possible. The person monitoring the chick I saw at the Navajo Bridge mentioned that their plan was to hopefully tag it a couple months from now, when it is 5-6 months old.

  • @nathanielmartin6631
    @nathanielmartin6631 2 года назад +2

    Great footage considering what you are working with! Im going to buy a t shirt so you guys can get a longer zoom lens haha

    • @BadgerlandBirding
      @BadgerlandBirding  2 года назад +1

      Haha, thank you! If you buy enough t-shirts we will rent the James Webb Telescope and bird with it

  • @Beryllahawk
    @Beryllahawk 2 года назад

    Fantastic!! It's funny how sometimes we get exactly what we hoped for but in the least expected way possible, isn't it?
    Such a gorgeous place, and so many wonderful birds! I have to pester my aunt and ask her if she got to see condors when she hiked the Grand Canyon a few years ago.

  • @staufferfamily9629
    @staufferfamily9629 2 года назад +1

    Very neat about #23 surviving all this time! I've heard of condors, but didn't really know the details of them and their near extinction. Thanks for the information, and for sharing this beautiful and interesting video!

  • @boredwarlock5216
    @boredwarlock5216 Год назад +1

    Duuuuude! Dinosaur

  • @Chris_Wolfgram
    @Chris_Wolfgram 2 года назад +1

    Great job guys 👍 I live in Cali, yet I still haven’t seen a California Condor ! Would love to someday though 🙂 But yea, those Western Tanagers are definitely gorgeous. IMPO they are the prettiest birds we have on the West coast. I’ve gotten really fantastic shots of them, but I can’t imagine not taking the time to look at them closely, and trying to get better shots than I already have. Just not a bird that I can really retire 🙂

  • @zachmatchinski1764
    @zachmatchinski1764 2 года назад +1

    What day were you guys at the canyon? I saw the same Condor, number 23, at the same lookout point this past Saturday and got some really good flight photos of it

  • @Koko-rc3pz
    @Koko-rc3pz Год назад +1

    What lens do you guys use on your camera? I'm relatively new to birding and i'm thinking about getting a 100-400mm for my Canon EOS 250D. It should be fine since im only a beginner, but im still unsure if its enough to take some good pictures. Comparing it with yours would probably help me visualize it better.

    • @BadgerlandBirding
      @BadgerlandBirding  Год назад

      This is the one we use for most bird pics and videos: ruclips.net/video/H5ShXgmCs7g/видео.html we have links in the description to all our gear!

  • @jamesgossweiler1349
    @jamesgossweiler1349 2 года назад +1

    If you toss out an antelope carcass and a Cali Condor swoops in and feeds on it, does it qualify as a "feeder bird?"

  • @timjozwiak2293
    @timjozwiak2293 11 месяцев назад

    The irony of birding

  • @pauraque
    @pauraque 2 года назад

    Can someone explain why the heck it's called a Zone-tailed Hawk. What does zone even mean???

  • @robertgeorge9909
    @robertgeorge9909 Год назад

    I believe 123 is now the oldest condor in the SW flock . He is usually seen with f#297. A pair that have never produced a chick.

    • @robertgeorge9909
      @robertgeorge9909 2 месяца назад

      Update 123 survived months of rehab for lead and is now flying free again. Unfortunately 297 died of lead in Jan 24. They did surprise us with a chick 1235 that is flying free and prospering.