California Trails Exhibit

The four California condors on view at the Santa Barbara Zoo are part of a new, multi-exhibit complex called California Trails that focuses on several endangered or threatened species in the Golden State.
Find out about Condor Country and how the exhibit is tailored for the needs of California condors.
They flew during the Pleistocene era and feasted on dead saber tooth tiger and mastodons – find out all about California condors.
Meet small Channel Island foxes who live only the islands off the California coast and how a special reintroduction of an unlikely bird of prey is helping them recover from a drastic decline.
Once commonplace but now facing habitat destruction, desert tortoises are in a new exhibit that will soon also feature chuckwalla lizards.
Neither of the Zoo’s bald eagles can be re-released into the wild: one is missing a wing, the other is missing an eye.
Rattlesnake Canyon is a new exhibit of reptiles and amphibians found in the Los Padres National Forest.
The Zoo's longtime Barnyard exhibit has been renovated and now features animals that played a part in California’s ranching history.
Adjacent to California Trails is Raptor Roost, an exhibit of California birds of prey including two red-tailed hawks and a turkey vulture who, for various reasons, cannot be released into the wild.