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A holdover from prehistoric times, the California Condor is one of North America's largest and most magnificent birds as well as one of the rarest. Soaring over wilderness crags, feeding on carcasses of large dead animals, reproducing very slowly, it was not well suited to survival in modern-day southern California. Headed toward extinction in the 1980s, the last birds were brought in from the wild in 1987, to be bred in captivity for eventual release into the wild again. The captive breeding program turned out to be surprisingly successful, and flocks of released California Condors are surviving in several areas of California and in the region of the Grand Canyon.
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