{"id":112865,"date":"2015-04-29T17:05:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T23:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wandering-condor-n8-checks-out-los-alamos\/"},"modified":"2015-04-29T17:05:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T23:05:24","slug":"wandering-condor-n8-checks-out-los-alamos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wandering-condor-n8-checks-out-los-alamos\/","title":{"rendered":"Wandering condor N8 checks out Los Alamos"},"content":{"rendered":"
Franz Carver photographed this California condor between Mancos and Dolores on April 16. The bird, with an \"N8\" tag, was spotted this weekend in Los Alamos, N.M.
Franz Carver photographed this California condor between Mancos and Dolores on April 16. The bird, with an \"N8\" tag, was spotted this weekend in Los Alamos, N.M.<\/span>Franz Carver\/For The Cortez Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to the Sante Fe New Mexican newspaper, Los Alamos birder Joe Fitzgibbon saw the bird in his backyard on April 24.<\/p>\n

Fitzgibbon saw the radio transmitter and the bird\u2019s \u201cN8\u201d tag and recognized it as the condor spotted between Mancos and Dolores by bird enthusiast Franz Carver.<\/p>\n

In February, Grand Canyon National Park officials lost track of the condor and feared it was dead.<\/p>\n

At one time, condors flew across much of North America, but by 1982, only 22 captive condors survived, according to The Peregrine Fund, which tracks and monitors the birds. Now there are an estimated 400 in the wild or in captivity, about 70 in the Grand Canyon area.<\/p>\n

N8 was hatched in captivity in the San Diego Wild Animal Park and released into the wild in February.<\/p>\n

Chris Parish, of The Peregrine Fund, told The Mancos Times last week that young birds such as 2-year-old N8 often wander in the spring when winds can take them long distances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carver photographed this California condor between Mancos and Dolores on April 16. The bird, with an “N8” tag, was spotted this weekend in Los Alamos, N.M.Franz Carver\/For The Cortez Journal According to the Sante Fe New Mexican newspaper, Los Alamos birder Joe Fitzgibbon saw the bird in his backyard on April 24. Fitzgibbon saw […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6363],"tags":[188,13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-112865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ds-news","tag-dolores-star","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112865"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=112865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}