Two Calif Condor Chicks Born

SAN DIEGO—The California condor population has just increased by two. City News Service says the first two condor chicks of the year were born last week at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.
Two other eggs are in incubators at the zoo's condor breeding program. Other zoos also are breeding the condors, and some birds released into the wild also have bred.

The park has hatched 165 chicks since the 1980s, when the last 22 California condors were placed in the captive breeding program.

Today, there are more than 370 in captivity and in the wild.