Condor chicks hatch in zoo and wild

Conservation biologists are crowing about the hatching of two highly endangered California condor chicks— one from the wild and another in the wild.

On June 1, scientists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the condor-breeding programs at two California zoos rescued a pair of eggs from a nest on a remote canyon cliff in California’s Los Padres National Forest (SN: 6/9/01, p.