On December 15th, as record-breaking wildfires raged through southern California’s Ventura County, wildlife biologists lost contact with California condor chick #871. The eight-month-old condor still hadn’t taken its first flight, and the fire was creeping down a ridge near the Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge towards its nest.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/3/16965970/california-condor-chick-devils-gate-nest-thomas-wildfire-survivor
A black-backed woodpecker in the Stanislaus National Forest, in California, June 1, 2017. The black-backed woodpecker is one of the rarest birds in California, and lately it has become something more: a symbol of a huge scientific and political debate over the future of fire in American forests.
http://www.bendbulletin.com/nation/5974402-151/woodpeckers-show-possible-brain-damage