A California condor protects its chick in a nest cave near Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge during the 2008 nesting season. Photograph by Joseph Brandt, found on the USFWS’ Flickr.
The number of condor nests in southern California varies each year, however, this year (2015) the population experienced a recording breaking year with 10 wild nests! All of these nests are located in Ventura County in the rugged back country surrounding Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge.
