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Getting Up Close And Personal With A California Condor Chick

Courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

It's an opportunity to watch a newly hatched California Condor chick in real-time, through a live streaming video.

It's located at a cliff-side nest in a canyon near the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge in Ventura County, California.

The chick hatched on April 10.

The birds were all but extinct in the wild, thirty years ago, but now there are around 500 of them worldwide.

Dr Estelle Sandhaus is Santa Barbara Zoo’s Director of Conservation and Science.

"It used to be that very few people could see a condor in the wild, or a condor nesting," she told KCLU.

"They spend about six months tending to their chick, " she said. "And there's equality in the Condor world! They take turns about equally, tending to the chick."

Caroline joined KCLU in October 2020. She won LA Press Club's Audio Journalist of the Year Award in 2022 and 2023.

Since joining the station she's won 7 Golden Mike Awards, 4 Los Angeles Press Club Awards and 2 National Arts & Entertainment Awards.

She started her broadcasting career in the UK, in both radio and television for BBC News, 95.8 Capital FM and Sky News and was awarded the Prince Philip Medal for her services to radio and journalism in 2007.

She has lived in California for ten years and is both an American and British citizen - and a very proud mom to her daughter, Elsie.