Condors are soaring again over Northern California's coastal redwoods

This image from a live web cam provided by Yurok Tribal Government shows California condors waiting for release in a designated staging enclosure on Tuesday. (Yurok Tribal Government via AP)

REDWOOD NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — The endangered California condor returned to soar the skies over the state's far northern coast redwood forests on Tuesday for the first time in more than a century.

Two captive-bred birds were released from a pen in Redwood National Park, about an hour's drive south of the Oregon border, under a project aimed at restoring the giant vultures to their historic habitat in the Pacific Northwest.