Santa Barbara Zoo

The California condor recovery program includes efforts to monitor condor nests during the breeding season to assess hatching success and chick survival. To minimize impacts to nesting birds the Santa Barbara Zoo established the Nest Guarding Program (NGP) across much of the range of condors in southern and central California. SFF funds contributed to the NGP with funds to purchase optical equipment such as spotting scopes and support their need for wireless transmission of data from remote sites.