The Birds and Wildlife of Florida's spectacular space coast are on display at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival.

Scrub Jays, painted buntings, Caracaras, and American flamingos are all on the table.

Next year's festival features expert leaders that will help you find great birds and get great photos, boat trips to see dolphins, manatees, and maybe even whales,

talks and workshops featuring Rosemary Moscow, Ken Kaufman and others, and an expansive trade show

in Optics Hall. Make your plans now. Trips fill up early. The 26th Space Coast. Birding

and Wildlife Festival is January 22nd through the 26th, 2025. Learn more at SCBWA.net.

Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.

I am Nate Swick. There's no shortage of bad bird news these days, but it's always

nice to take a moment and shout out some good bird news, like, for instance, what is happening

with California condors these days. When I was first coming up as a young naturalist, the

plight of the California condor was a big story in the various kids nature magazines

that I would receive. I remember when the last wild condor was captured in 1987 at the time

there were only 22 birds left in the world. And the goal of the recovery program was to

breed the birds in captivity and then release

them back into protected areas in California and eventually Arizona as well. In the early 90s,

they started seeding some of the birds back into the wild. One of those sites, Pinnacle's National

Monument, now Pinnacles National Park in Central California, has long been an important site

for the reintroduced

condors. As most of the park is still protected as wilderness, there is limited access. And the

condors have done reasonably well there. The first nest was discovered in 2009. And monitors,

GPS monitors are tracking about two dozen condors along with a small handful of

untagged birds. And they've been ranging pretty widely these days through the Santa Lucia

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