A California Condor at the Condor Ridge exhibit of the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. Courtesy of Chuck Szmurlo/Wikimedia Commons.
makes simple nests in caves or clefts eats large amounts of carrion
especially susceptible to poisoning was poached almost to extinction
the year you were born all remaining wild birds were captured
later reintroduced to freedom are still critically endangered
that same year of the Presidio manzanita only one specimen remained
in a place kept secret by conservancy has since been cloned
in a single lifetime what ecology can mean a tenuous hold
on a crumbling shoreline eradication or survival by extremes