E75 Naturally Scott Adventures – California Condors: Giants of the Grand Canyon 🦅🏜️

Send us Fan MailWith a wingspan approaching 10 feet, the California Condor is a bird you don't simply see—you experience.In this edition of Naturally Scott Adventures, Scott Harris travels to Navajo Bridge in Arizona, where the Colorado River cuts through Marble Canyon and one of the rarest birds in North America has found an extraordinary place to roost. Scott considers it the best place in the world to experience California Condors, with birds sometimes resting on the bridge girders almost directly beneath you. Scott follows the condors through their day: waking slowly as the canyon warms, spreading enormous wings in the morning sun, riding the developing thermals into the sky, traveling tremendous distances in search of carrion, and eventually soaring back into Marble Canyon to roost for the night. In this episode:🦅 What it's like to stand just feet away from a California Condor🌄 Seeing condors at Navajo Bridge and Marble Canyon📏 Just how enormous a nearly 10-foot wingspan looks in the wild☀️ How condors use thermals to travel incredible distances🏷️ Why wild condors carry numbered wing tags—and how those tags let you learn the story of an individual bird🥚 The extraordinary effort required to raise a young condor⚠️ How California Condors came terrifyingly close to extinction❤️ The captive-breeding program that brought them back🎯 Why lead ammunition remains one of the greatest threats to their survivalScott also shares other places to search for California Condors, including Pinnacles National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, and Zion National Park, and explains why seeing one of these enormous birds soaring through a canyon is a wildlife experience that's difficult to forget. This is the story of an ancient bird that fell to fewer than two dozen individuals—and the extraordinary effort to give these giants of the sky another chance.