This largest of our birds is rapidly approaching extinction thru the efforts of ranchmen and hunters. The former poison and the latter shoot them. A few are still living among the deep mountainsides of southern California. W. L. Finley has studied, photographed and written the most complete life history of these birds. His article in "Nature Magazine," August 1926, is most illuminating.
The plain greenish white eggs, one or two in number, are laid in remote rock recesses.
Mountain ranges of southern California. Rarely north to southern Oregon and east to Arizona.