Condor Chick Tests Flying Skills - Sept. 16, 2016

This clip shows the first documented footage of the condor chick practicing some “tester flights“. Here you can see the chick gliding from the edge of a shallow cliff into the brush below. While this behavior is common for juvenile condors when navigating steep cliff edges, the chick is not yet considered to be fledged until it has landed in a location that can only be reached by flying. Stay tuned for more info on this wily chick! Watch LIVE at This condor nest, known as