Wildlife officials say 20 California condors in northern Arizona and southern Utah have died since March, and half of the endangered birds tested positive for a strain of avian flu.
PHOENIX — Twenty California condors in northern Arizona and southern Utah have died since March, and half of the endangered birds tested positive for a strain of avian flu, according to authorities.
So far, authorities say, the virus hasn’t been detected in the other condor populations in California or Baja California, Mexico. “The condor is slow to mature, taking up to eight years before they can produce young, and with an average of one young every other year, the rate of replacement for a loss in the wild is a big impact,” Chris Parish, president and CEO of the Peregrine Fund, told the Republic. “Given the total number of birds we eventually lose and the age structure of those lost will have a tremendous impact on the recovery effort, likely to take decades.
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