Last year, California banned lead bullets in the chunk of the state that makes up the endangered California condor's habitat.

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The iconic California condor was on the brink of extinction in 1987 when the surviving 22 birds in the wild were taken into captivity.

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That story and a success for the California Condor in Mexico.

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The Tehachapi has experienced a wind farm building boom in recent years (which as I wrote last year has also collided with the return of the iconic but critically endangered California condor).

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As Mike Wallace, the leader of the California condor recovery team, of the Fish and Wildlife Service, says condors are like primates in that they have to learn how to behave from their parents.

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Three national environmental groups on Friday sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management over its approval of a planned NextEra Energy Resources wind farm in the Tehachapi region of California that state and federal wildlife officials had warned threatens the critically endangered California condor.

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They also prompted vocal opposition to condor-recovery efforts in southern California.

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