Hello World! Watch A Wild Baby California Condor Grow Up Streaming Live

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s “Condor Cam” is now live streaming the childhood of a critically endangered California condor baby on a computer near you

by GrrlScientist for Forbes | @GrrlScientist

Wild-born California condor chick (#770) with its mother (#79). This bird was the first chick to be born in 2015.
(Credit: Joseph Brandt / USFWS / public domain)

Thanks to modern technology, you can watch an endangered California condor chick grow up before your very eyes, thanks to a live streaming video that was installed on the ceiling of the chick’s cliff-side home overlooking Pole Canyon, a remote area in the Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge in California.

The chick, #980, hatched on 10 April. It is the offspring of a nine-year-old female (#563) and a 19-year-old male (#262). This is the first time that this particular condor pair has been featured on the live streaming condor cam. Additionally, this is the first time this pair of condors has nested together, although both parent condors nested once before with different mates.

The live-streaming condor-cam is mounted on the ceiling of a wild California condor nest in remote Pole Canyon.
(Credit: USFWS / public domain)

“Today’s technology allows researchers like us to observe nests in remote locations without having to trek into the backcountry and wait for days, sometimes weeks, at observation blinds for a glimpse of the…