Tragedy struck the Yurok tribe’s condor restoration efforts when one of the critically endangered birds succumbed to lead poisoning — an entirely preventable, human-caused threat — just months after being released from the Los Angeles Zoo into the wild. The bird, Pey-noh-pey-o-wok, had been flying freely for only three months when he died in the […]
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Tragedy struck the Yurok tribe’s condor restoration efforts when one of the critically endangered birds succumbed to lead poisoning — an entirely preventable, human-caused threat — just months after being released from the Los Angeles Zoo into the wild.
The bird, Pey-noh-pey-o-wok, had been flying freely for only three months when he died in the backcountry of Redwood National Park after ingesting a lead air-gun pellet, the tribe announced Wednesday. At 18 months old, he was the youngest bird in his flock of 18.
