Condor T Shirt

The California Condor faced extinction in 1987 with only 22 birds left in the wild. These birds were captured and placed into a captive breeding program. In 1992 a re-release program began and in 1996 the release program was expanded to Northern Arizona. I created this shirt to commemorate the first successful fledge of the entire program. This took place in 2003 when Condor 305, depicted on this shirt, left the confines of his Nest cave on the south rim of the Grand Canyon and became the first free flying wild hatched Condor in about eighteen years.