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One of the six endangered California Condors released at Pinnacles National Monument in 2003 has died at the Los Angeles Zoo. After the bird was found shot, it was brought to Los Angeles to be treated, but died Monday due to complications from lead poisoning after the bird ingested lead ammunition from hunters (oddly enough, the gunshots and ingestion were not related). On the brighter side of things. Two condors (313 and 303 if you really want to be specific) have mated and are watching over their egg right now just outside the National Monument on a privately owned ranch. This is the first condor nest near the monument in 70s years, according to the National Park Service.
California Condor Dies at LA Zoo
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It's not odd at all that the gunshots and lead ingestion were unrelated. Though there will always be the unfathomable incident in which some unredeemable idiot shoots such a magnificent and rare creature, the biggest threat condors face doesn't come from the lead in guns pointed at them, but instead the lead in guns used to kill things that the condors then scavenge upon, bullet fragments and all.