The "Bringing the condors home" exhibition just opened, and it will continue until April 15th, so you've got plenty of time. I'm going to try and see it on Sunday, before I get too caught up in work again.
This exhibition was created by the Ventana Wildlife Society. They've got a 360-degree photo panorama on display, a video of condors in the wild, and a life-size diagram showing the massive wingspan.
There's also a mounted specimen, egg, and skull from the Oakland Museum's natural history collection. My friends, please don't be horrified by this -- the museum makes a point of using specimens from roadkill accidents or from creatures that died due to natural causes.
The California condor is an endangered species and, by the 1980s, they were basically extinct in the wild. Due to the efforts of the Ventana society and others, there's a small flock flying free in California again.
This exhibition also features presentations about the efforts that are being made to help these birds, including breeding, release, research, and population monitoring programs.
I'm looking forward to this exhibit. It should be thrilling!
It should be impressive. A few years ago I visited one of the other organizations helping to bring the condors back--the raaptor place near Boise, ID whose name escapes me at the moment. They had a live condor on site, and it was HUGE. Just amazing.
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