Which Condor Are You?
If you attended the California Trails opening celebration on April 25, you were given an arm-band, much like the wing-bands worn by all California condors. All California condors have numbered wing tags so that scientists can identify them and keep track of them.
Find out below how “you” are related to the four California condors at the Santa Barbara Zoo.
Don’t have a band? Enjoy reading the life histories of 30 or so fascinating condors.
The Santa Barbara Zoo’s four condors are descendents of the last wild-born birds that flew free until the 1980s, when all of world’s population of these prehistoric creatures (then numbering 24) were captured and placed into captive breeding programs.
Now, there are more than 300 of these impressive creatures alive today. More than half of the current population of California condors are now flying in the wild; the others are in the captive breeding program and just a very few are on exhibit.
- Numbers 2 – 27: Captured from the Wild
- Numbers 29 – 48: First Generation of Captive Raised Condors
- Numbers 53 – 97: Parents of the Santa Barbara Zoo’s Condors
- Numbers 432 – 440: Meet the Santa Barbara Zoo Condors
Photo credit: David Orias