Condor

to the brink and back--the life and times of one giant bird

Provides an account of the successful efforts to save the condor from extinction, discussing disputes between scientists, farmers, developers, bird lovers, and bureaucrats over whether and how the continent's largest flying land bird should be saved, and describing the government's decision in the 1980s to place the last remaining wild condors in zoo breeding program.

HarperCollins
2006
9780060088620
book

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435771