PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) – The Oregon Zoo announced the arrival of the first five California condor eggs of 2026, with two pairs of condors producing eggs in the past two weeks.
Zoo officials said the egg-laying season typically runs through March and sometimes into April. One pair at the zoo’s Jonsson Center for Wildlife has produced a January egg for three consecutive years.
“We’re off to a great start, and looking forward to another successful season,” said Nicole LaGreco, who oversees the zoo’s condor recovery efforts. “With only around 560 California condors in the entire world, each egg is incredibly important.”
The condor parents will sit on their eggs for up to two weeks before keepers place them in an incubator. During incubation, the parents sit on dummy eggs until hatching begins, when keepers switch the real eggs back so the chicks can hatch under their parents.
More than 140 chicks have hatched at the Jonsson Center since 2003.
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