Another California condor — the 3rd in the past two months — released near San Simeon.

Another juvenile California condor has been set free from a large holding pen in the mountains east of San Simeon, the third over the past two months.

“Tonk,” a female, joins the flock of 16 of the giant endangered birds that have been released in San Luis Obispo County since 2015, according to Joe Burnett, lead biologist with the Ventana Wildlife Society (VWS) in Big Sur.