ANATOMY OF BIRDS
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
MIGRATIONS OF BIRDS
CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS
LIZARD-TAILED BIRD
AMERICAN TOOTHED-BIRDS
THE OSTRICHES
THE RHEAS
EMEUS AND CASSOWARIES
THE TINAMOUS
THE KIWIS
THE PENGUINS
LOONS AND GREBES
ALBATROSSES & PETRELS
STORK-LIKE BIRDS
GOOSE-LIKE BIRDS
FALCON-LIKE BIRDS
FOWL-LIKE BIRDS
CRANE-LIKE BIRDS
PLOVER-LIKE BIRDS
CUCKOO-LIKE BIRDS
THE ROLLER-LIKE BIRDS
SPARROW-LIKE BIRDS
Birds and Birding's Guide to:
Watching THE FALCON-LIKE BIRDS
THE AMERICAN VULTURES (Suborder Catharta)
Flight of the Condor
The Condor feeds largely on carrion, but is also fond of fresh meat and may occasionally kill old, very young, or injured animals, of goats, sheep, or does. Like the other Vultures, they gorge themselves with food when opportunity offers, and at such times are easily approached and lassoed by the Guachos.
”The Indians who live in the high mountains often catch Condors by digging a hole in the ground sufficiently large for a man to hide in, over which they place a cow's hide, leaving only a small part uncovered down one side.
Near this they place the carcase or part of an animal, and the man in hiding secures the Condors by the legs as they settle. Still another way is to place a carcase in a fairly deep trench, from which the Condors are unable to take wing again.”— Goodfeixow. They nest in the high, inaccessible fastnesses of the Cordilleras, selecting a ledge or shelf of rock, where, gathering together a few sticks or even on the bare rock, they deposit their two eggs. These are white, unspotted, and nearly four inches in length.
The young when hatched are covered with a gray down, and require more than a year before being able to fly, and seven years before attaining mature plumage.
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