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California Condor Chick Takes Flight in Southern California
November 16, 2006, EA06-01 (117kb pdf)

Condor chick 412 practices its new-found flying abilities November 11, 2006 at a remote site near Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge in Ventura County, California. The condor is only the second of the rare birds to fledge in the wild in California since condors were reintroduced in 1992. --USFWS Photo by Mike Wallace, Zoological Society of San Diego

Redwood City, California Man Pleads Guilty to Smuggling Federally-Protected Eagle Owls
Nov. 30, 2006 (43Kb pdf)

This female eagle owl was hatched from eggs smuggled into the United States from Austria by Jeffrey A. Diaz of Redwood City, Calif. Diaz pleaded guilty Nov. 30 in U.S. District Court in San Francisco to two counts of smuggling and two counts of making false statements to federal agents. Diaz faces up to 5 years in prison and fines of up to $250,000 for each charge. (Credit "Jack Dumbacher, Ph.D., California Academy of Sciences.)

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