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Thirty years ago, a bird native to California was on the brink of extinction. Known for its impressive size, the California condor has been the target of recovery efforts ever since. Now, as biologists prepare to release more birds into the wild in Kern County, the recovery program is gaining new momentum. At the Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge near Maricopa, two adult California condors are perching on what biologists with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service call a flight pen. We’re standing on a hill, within a fenced enclosure, and in the center is a huge cage with nine condors inside. All but one of these vulture-like birds are juveniles. Their bald heads are black, not yet the reddish-pink that the adult condors sitting outside the pen have. Steve Kirkland is the field coordinator for the Service’s Condor Recovery Program . “The wingspan is nine and a half feet, which is almost as wide as a Volkswagen bug,” he says, describing the bird. “When they soar closely over your head,
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