As of July 1, there were 222 California condors in the United States, 81 of which were in the wild, [Mike Stockton] said. Nearly half of the condors in the wild are in California, with 36 more in Arizona and five in Baja California.

In February, an adult female condor brought from the wild into a captive-breeding program was shot and killed by a poacher in Kern County. Britton Cole Lewis of Tehachapi pleaded guilty in May to charges stemming from the shooting.