A bad month for condors

Last month, a California condor hatched on a remote California cliff (SN: 6/30/01, p. 406 Condor chicks hatch in zoo and wild). It was the first to hatch in the wild since a federal condor-restoration program began repopulating the environment with captive-bred members of this endangered species in 1992. Alas, the chick survived only 2 days.