California condors expanding range further north, but what’s that mean for the endangered birds?

The elusive and illustrious California Condor, an endangered scavenger bird, is making a major comeback through the Bay Area.

Condors in September were tracked into Sunol, according to conservationists who track and rehabilitate the birds native to the state. Scientists with Ventana Wildlife Society, a group which traps, breeds and releases the condors into the wild, tracked two of the airborne excursionists on September 17, when they spent the evening in the mountains just south of San Antonio Reservoir in Sunol Regional Wilderness, returning south the following afternoon. This paints a wildly different view of the condors’ flight range since the birds’ population dipped as low as just 23 in the world in 1982.

“I think that might be one of the first times,” Kelly Sorenson, Ventana’s exe