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Steve Lacy Sextet – Franco Beltrametti

2 November 202029 November 2020 ~ Pseudogryps

In the 1980s, an Italian poem inspired by the California condor was set to music. Here’s the story.

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Franco Beltrametti’s grande uccello

1 October 20201 October 2020 ~ Pseudogryps

This is the 1st of 3 posts about a Swiss-Italian artist’s interest in the California condor during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Suddenly

29 July 201828 March 2020 ~ Pseudogryps

Updated 4 December 2019

California condors have a reputation for suddenly appearing and disappearing. Here are 6 reports of this phenomenon from the 1850s to the 1970s.

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Yet another early-20th-century poem

12 March 201628 March 2020 ~ Pseudogryps

In 1928, Harriet Williams Myers, then president of the California Audubon Society, authored a booklet in advance of the selection of California’s state bird. Of course, the California condor makes an appearance.

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Nature’s garbage man

3 January 201628 March 2020 ~ Pseudogryps

Sheldon Campbell, a one-time trustee of the San Diego Zoo, closed a 1984 essay about the California condor with this:

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