Pinnacles National Park: California Condors Back from the Edge

This is part 4 of our Pinnacles National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Pinnacles National Park for kids:Part 1: A Volcano Broke Apart and Walked AwayPart 2: Thousands of Bats Under the RocksPart 3: Bee Capital of the World--What would you do if there were only twenty-two left in the entire world?The California condor is the largest flying land bird in North America. It has a super important job in nature that keeps the landscape healthy. Once this enormous bird owned the skies from British Columbia to Baja California, and then it almost disappeared forever. In this episode, we find out how the condor population crashed, why scientists made the risky decision to capture every last wild condor, and why Pinnacles National Park is their perfect home.🎒 Scout Mission included! Great for family time outdoors, hikes, roadtrips and of course, visits to Pinnacles National Park. Complete your mission and tell us about it. Have a grown-up help you share your findings at nationalparkscouts.com. We might share your report on a future episode!Can you guess this episode's Mystery Sound?National Park Scouts, where curious kids discover America's wildest places.This ad is for National Park Supply Co, a family run company that makes shirts, hats and stickers for national parks. They use super soft bella canvas shirts and print on demand so nothing is wasted! Visit https://nationalparkssupplyco.com to order your next shirt.https://nationalparkscouts.com/Amazing music from Sheb3arFind National Park Scouts on Instagram