California condor number 631 carefully left the pen at Big Sur shortly after 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
The 3-year-old male condor thought about things for a while before taking off.
California condors were extinct in 1987, but conservationists brought them back through captive breeding.
There are now 410 living condors.
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