The endangered California condor faces an “epidemic” of lead poisoning from scavenging carcasses contaminated by lead bullets despite years of costly conservation efforts, scientists said Monday. The rare birds were reduced to a population of just 22 in 1982, and have since recovered to number about 400, with half of…
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