‘Nature’s clean–up crew’: record-setting 17 condor chicks hatch at LA Zoo

The birds, protected as an endangered species, will remain under zoo care for year and a half before being sent into wild

Nearly 20 new California condors will fly across the western sky after a record-setting hatching of baby birds this summer at the Los Angeles Zoo.

The zoo marked a record of 17 California condor chicks hatched during this year's breeding season, with staff members preparing to set the birds into the harsh wild as they are currently protected as an endangered species.