1st Edition California Condor Ornament

Our 1st Edition California Condor Ornament features Condor #22 soaring over the Vermillion Cliffs in honor of the 22 California Condors left in the world in the 1980's.

This 3-dimensional, two piece ornament comes in sturdy engraved metal and ships in a black, velvet-lined Peregrine Fund display box.

Dimensions:

 2.75"W x 3.87"H 

Included insert with box:

In the early 1980s, the California Condor was disappearing. The decline was dramatic, the cause not yet fully understood, and the window to act was closing. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service called on a handful of organizations to help. They called on us.

Over the last 30 years, The Peregrine Fund has led a captive breeding effort and supported wild reintroductions across the condor's full range. By tracking individual birds in Arizona and Utah over decades, we named what was holding recovery back: lead poisoning—residues of spent ammunition left in the remains of shot animals. It was a hidden threat, but a solvable one. In 2018, we co-founded the North American Lead-Free Partnership, a coalition of nearly 70 hunting, conservation, and wildlife management organizations. Built by hunters and working with hunters, it is grounded in the belief that protecting wildlife and honoring hunting heritage are not competing goals.

Every California Condor released wears a black wing tag with an identifying number.  This helps us monitor each bird and respond quickly when help is needed.  The number 22 on this ornament's tag tells a story: by the late 1980s, only 22 California Condors were left on Earth—making it the most endangered raptor in North America and the third highest priority raptor for conservation in the world according to EDGE, a scientific ranking that weighs both a species' evolutionary uniqueness and its risk of extinction.