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.
Tag: Poetry
Yet another early-20th-century poem
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.
Nature’s garbage man
Sheldon Campbell, a one-time trustee of the San Diego Zoo, closed a 1984 essay about the California condor with this:
2 more poems from the early 20th century
Here I note 2 more early-20th century poems that, as I explain below, concern the California condor.
2 poems from the early 20th century
Here I present and briefly consider 2 poems about the California condor.
