California Condors Lead Poisoning

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California Condors Lead Poisoning
FILE - This 2003 file photo provided on March 13, 2009 by Pinnacles National Monument shows a California Condor who was brought to the Los Angeles Zoo on Friday, March 13 for treatment of lead poisoning. The bird, number 286, was the old man of the park's California condor restoration program. Hatched in a zoo, he learned to live in the wild, a hopeful sign the majestic birds' population could rise again. But in recent months during a forage for a carcass that took the endangered vulture above Pinnacles' rocky spires and nearby hunting ranches, he got lead poisoning. No. 286 recently died at the Los Angeles Zoo. (AP Photo/Pinnacles National Monument, File)