A condor flew into Oregon, the first since 1904

A California condor flew into Oregon last month, the first of its kind recorded in the state since 1904. Conservationists with northern California's Yurok Tribe identified the bird as B9, a female born in captivity and released into the wild in 2022. She covered 380 miles in four days, looping from the redwoods past Redding, into Oregon near Medford and Brookings, then back home to Redwoods National Park. "She flew almost 100 miles per day," said Tiana Williams Claussen, director of the Yurok Tribe Wildlife Department, "which means she was really utilizing the landscape the way that only a condor can." The species nearly vanished. By 1987 only 22 wild birds remained, all captured for a breeding program. In February, a Redwoods condor laid an egg in a hollow tree, the first there in over a century. It did not hatch. Williams Claussen called it a milestone anyway, noting that naive parents are still figuring it out.