WORLD'S BIGGEST FLYING BIRD

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3717, 2 November 1926, Page 2

WORLD'S BIGGEST FLYING BIRD

THE CALIFORNIAN CONDOR It is a rare bird that lays an egg worth about .'I,OOO dozen ul the valuable, if ordinary, hen fruit, but the California condor claims that distinction. The native condor has other claims to fame, so many, it appears, that a number of agencies are interested in its protection. The tact may not be generally known (says a writer in the Dearborn ‘ Independent’) that the Pacific coast of the United States is the home of a claimant foi the title of the largest bird that (lies- “This is the California condor, whose only rival for size is the Andean condor, found only in the Cordilleras of the West coast of South America. In addition to holding a record lor size among birds oi the North American continent, the California condor lays an egg valued by museums and collectors at i.oOO to 2,000 dollars- - almost in the class of the egg of the long-dead dinosaur.” And now comes word from the American Came Association that the California condor is rapidly passing to join tiie dinosaur, the great auk. tile Labrador duels, and the silver-tip grizzly in extinction. The Calilonua Slate' Fish and Came Commission, vliich has been making a special •Indy ol (lie condor, is authority lor the statement I hat to-day there arc no California condors living in a wild stale outside ol nine counties in ( ahfoi nia. and that there are only about filly of these birds even there, "here thev nest in the high and almost inaccessible ranges.

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