The California condor’s return to flying free in the wild after a close brush with extinction may be an illusory recovery.
UNSAFE SCAVENGING The California condor, a species that survived near-extinction, isn’t establishing self-sustaining populations in the wild because of lead ammunition in carcasses the birds scavenge, researchers say.
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