Baby Condor Breaks Pinnacles National Park's 100-Year Nesting Drought

This is the first time in a century that a California condor chick has hatched and left the nest at Pinnacles National Park.

A baby condor has hatched and left its nest, breaking a 100-year nesting drought in Pinnacles National Park, NBC4's media partner KPCC reports.

"Having 100 years go by without California condors nesting here in the park successfully really shows the struggle it's been toward these birds’ recovery," Rachel Wolstenholme, who manages the condor program at Pinnacles, told KPCC.

There were only 27 California condors left in the world three decades ago. Now, there are roughly 250 of them. 

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