They claimed the project posed threats to California condors, golden eagles, southwestern willow flycatchers and bats.
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It soon became obvious that the first captive-raised condors, released in 1992, had no clue about proper condor behaviour.
Then on July 18 two condors flew near the site and possibly directly over it, according to their GPS signals.
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In the wild, according to Mr Wallace, condors are raised alone, in a secluded nest, with two stern and hierarchical parents.
The Baja condors may be arriving at the last really good habitat.
The condors proved to have great curiosity, but no caution at all.
And such programs do exist for other species, Derocher said, including California condors, black bears in Washington state and brown bears in Eastern Europe.
And if travellers come to see the condors, locals may learn that they can earn more money protecting a live bird than they can save by killing one.
The captured condors reproduced successfully, but attempts to return their offspring to the wild foundered on a lack of cultural knowledge condor culture, that is, not human.
Here you can watch flightless steamer ducks, Andean condors and guanaco (rare llama-like herbivores), and explore the glacier-lined Beagle Channel, made famous by Darwin and Fitzroy.
But if condors and wind turbines are going to coexist, those turbines need to be sited carefully and measures have to be taken to minimize the risk that condors will be killed.
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As Mike Wallace, the leader of the California condor recovery team, of the Fish and Wildlife Service, says condors are like primates in that they have to learn how to behave from their parents.
Humans wearing a condor-shaped glove puppet (developed by Mr Wallace) have fed the nestlings, and they have been kept in close proximity to a group of older condors so that they can observe and learn from their elders' behaviour.
They argue that the BLM had violated the federal Endangered Species Act and other environmental laws by failing to adequately consider the impact of the wind farm on condors, golden eagles and other protected wildlife when it leased the project site to NextEra, the Florida-based energy developer.
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In October 2012, The Defenders of Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity, and the Sierra Club, filed suit in the Kern County Superior Court in Bakersfield, California to reopen an environmental review of a 100-turbine North Sky River wind project and a smaller adjacent Jawbone project in the mountains north of the Mojave Desert over threats to California condors.
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