The Change Mariner

Arizona's 1st wild condor chick in decades discovered

Tucson Citizen:

It's a first.

Biologists don't know if it's a boy or a girl, but the first condor chick born in the wild in Arizona since records have been kept has been sighted in a remote cave at the Grand Canyon.

The discovery of the downy chick is a huge leap forward in the effort to bring the California condor back from the edge of extinction.Two biologists made the discovery Saturday after a 12-mile trek into a part of the canyon called the Inferno. From there, they trained binoculars and telescopes up a wall of limestone, spying the sprightly baby in a cave far beneath Hopi Point.