![]() ![]() ![]() Initially after the rediscovery, she helped to install cages to prevent trampling. Holly Forbes, Curator at the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden, told the story of her role and experience with the rediscovered population and the conservation of the Mount Diablo buckwheat. Holly discussed this discovery in her presentation. Save Mount Diablo Board member Heath Bartosh and Brian Peterson amid a field of rare Mount Diablo buckwheat wildflowers that they found in May 2016. Next year, we’ll be funding more trackers to expand the research on the condors’ range. In 2022, Save Mount Diablo helped to fund nine GPS trackers that were used to track young condors, who are the most likely to wander north. A single condor can fly nearly the length of the entire Diablo Range in a day-to fully track their movements, long-range GPS trackers are needed. They perished because of poisoned meat and lead bullets, their population decreasing to just 22 condors in 1982.ĭwarfing birds like the bald eagle with their nearly 10-foot wingspan, condors can fly far in search for food. Settlers used to kill them in huge numbers because they were thought to be a threat to livestock, not realizing that these birds were scavengers. How did California condors nearly go extinct? Besides habitat loss, many factors contributed to their decline. It’s an intensive process that requires good habitat. She kicked the presentation off with an overview of the condors’ feeding and breeding habits, describing the “condor soap opera” that she witnesses every January and February where mates pair up.Įach condor chick takes months to hatch and a year and a half for each pair to raise. Erin Lehnert and Sean Burke show how big a condor is in real life. ![]()
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