The Condor's Shadow : returned to the wild but will they fly free? /

"Saved from extinction in the 1980s, the California condor is an uplifting conservation success story - but the condor is not quite out of the woods yet. In a beautiful and moving documentary, The Condor's Shadow follows biologist Joseph Brandt into the historic nesting habitat of the icon...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McLoughlin, Jeff (Author, Producer, Director)
Corporate Author:	Good Eye Films (Firm)
Other Authors:	McCouglin, Jess (Producer), Turpin, Ethan (Cinematographer, Researcher), Hedden, Donnie (Photographer, Cinematographer, Designer)
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	English
Published:	[Santa Barbara, California] : Good Eye Films, LLC, 2013.
Subjects:	California condor > Conservation > Reintroduction. Wildlife reintroduction. Lead poisoning in animals. Lead > Toxicology. Documentary films. Nonfiction films.

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Summary:	"Saved from extinction in the 1980s, the California condor is an uplifting conservation success story - but the condor is not quite out of the woods yet. In a beautiful and moving documentary, The Condor's Shadow follows biologist Joseph Brandt into the historic nesting habitat of the iconic Califonria condor. It's here that the challenges of rebuilding a self-sustaining population of the species are made real. Suffering from the very same human-caused threats that took the bird to the brink of extinction thirty years prior, Joseph and his team go to extreme lengths to enable the species to fly free once again. Biologists, captive breeding specialists, scientists and a feisty condor named Pitahsi frame the narrative in this engaging story of recovery. Through interviews with contributors to the condor recovery program and remarkable footage of the conservationists working in the field, the film explores the challenges of an endangered species program and the character of this strange and wonderful bird." (From the case.)
Item Description:	Playing time: 55 minutes. Bonus features: Interviews with Toxicologist Myra Finkelstein, PhD; Bruce Rideout, PhD & Michael Mace - San Diego Zoo; Kelli Walker - Oregon Zoo; Ria Boner - Santa Barbara Zoo; Anthony Prieto - Hunter Outreach; Jeff Miller - Center for Biological Diversity; Janna Wynne, DVM, plus additional scenes.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc : color, sound ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time:	00:55:00
Production Credits:	Jeff McLoughlin, Producer, Writer & Director; Jess McLoughlin, Associate Producer; Ethan Turpin, Cinematographer, Research, Story Consultant; Donnie Hedden, Photographer, Cinematographer & Web Designer; Craig Rowe, Marketing, Web & Social Media.
ISBN:	9781467588553 1467588555