Captive California condor at Wild Animal Park, San Diego Zoo

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Captive California condor at Wild Animal Park, San Diego Zoo




Image by Martin LaBar (going on hiatus)

This is as close as I am likely to get to a California
condor. Taken at the San Diego zoo's Wild Animal Park. California
condors are on the brink of extinction. Heroic efforts are being taken so that
they don't become extinct. Some condors have now been released into the wild, and have reproduced.

Adult condors have wingspreads of about 3 meters/yards. Like many other birds that scavenge on dead animals, their heads are almost bare.

Genesis 1:26
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them
have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and
over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that
creeps on the earth.”
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and
fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over
the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” (ESV)

Part of God's charge to humans was to take care of other creatures, which is
often referred to as stewardship. Although we must have other priorities, part
of our job is to try to keep other types of living things alive.