Milagra, a California condor named for her miraculous survival, was released into the wild near the Grand Canyon this weekend. Despite facing numerous challenges, including the loss of her mother to avian flu and her father nearly succumbing to the same disease, Milagra thrived and joined two other condors in taking flight.
VERMILLION CLIFFS NAT'L MONUMENT -- By all accounts, Milagra the 'miracle' California condor shouldn't be alive today.But now at nearly 17 months old, she is one of three of the giant endangered birds who got to stretch their wings in the wild as part of a release this weekend near the Grand Canyon .Even after the door was opened Saturday, the birds didn't immediately leave their pen. After 20 minutes, one condor left the pen, followed 20 minutes later by another condor.
The fund's biologists typically don't name the birds they help raise in captivity, identifying them instead with numbers to avoid giving them human characteristics out of respect for the species.They made an exception in the case of #1221, aka Milagra. They saw her journey as emblematic of the captive breeding program coming full circle.Milagra's foster father, #27, was hatched in the wild in California in 1983.
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