Yes - this was the first zoological park to put California condors on public display. They are in a very nice North America section called Condor Ridge that opened several years ago, perhaps a decade ago. Since then, additional public displays have opened at San Diego Zoo, World Bird of Prey Center (Idaho), Santa Barbara Zoo and possibly Oregon Zoo (not sure if they are on display there or not).
Yes - this was the first zoological park to put California condors on public display. They are in a very nice North America section called Condor Ridge that opened several years ago, perhaps a decade ago. Since then, additional public displays have opened at San Diego Zoo, World Bird of Prey Center (Idaho), Santa Barbara Zoo and possibly Oregon Zoo (not sure if they are on display there or not).
In recent years. Los Angeles actually originally built the current large Cape Griffon Vulture aviary for the then, lone California Condor in captivity since 1967, Topa Topa, back in the late 1970s. I viewed him there on numerous occasions. And kept him on display there for several years until the joint San Diego/Los Angeles rescue breeding program was initiated in the early 1980s; a program this remarkable bird has been a part of since its inception. And many years prior, San Diego displayed California Condors in the large Scripps Aviary as far back as the 1930s.
Yes - this was the first zoological park to put California condors on public display. They are in a very nice North America section called Condor Ridge that opened several years ago, perhaps a decade ago. Since then, additional public displays have opened at San Diego Zoo, World Bird of Prey Center (Idaho), Santa Barbara Zoo and possibly Oregon Zoo (not sure if they are on display there or not).
Oregon Zoo will open the exhibit in May 2014. The 3 - intended occupants - condors will come up from the Jonsson conservation center by March. They will have 2 months to acclimatize to the aviary / exhibit prior to access being given to zoo visitors.
The on site display facilities of California condors is an integral part in the nature education / species recovery program. It would be nice to at some point be able to see them hovering wild again over Oregon and Columbia once more. Perhaps some day that will be a reality. For now, we have 400+ Californian condors in captivity / wilds and the populations continue to expand.
