Flaco, the owl who endeared himself to New Yorkers in sightings around Manhattan, had underlying conditions consistent with urban wildlife when he died last month, zoo officials said. Flaco was ...

Just over a year ago, Flaco the Eurasian eagle-owl captivated the hearts of New Yorkers when he fled from a Central Park Zoo enclosure after it was vandalized. Flaco, dubbed “one of New York’s Flyest” ...

NEW YORK -- When he first escaped from his vandalized enclosure at New York City's Central Park Zoo, handlers of Flaco, a Eurasian eagle owl, doubted he could survive on his own after spending most of ...

So Flaco the Eurasian eagle-owl is dead — killed in a collision with an Upper West Side building Friday, a year after vandals cut the wires on his cage, just inside the Central Park Zoo. Well-meaning, ...

The cause of death for Flaco, the beloved owl, has been revealed in a necropsy. New Yorkers spotted the Central Park Zoo escapee flying high in the sky before crashing into a building in the Upper ...

Flaco the Eurasian eagle-owl took to New York, and New Yorkers took to him. To turn that into an article, a reporter had to take to the wing. By Ed Shanahan Ed Shanahan is a breaking news reporter and ...

Flaco, a Eurasian eagle-owl who became a New York celebrity known for escaping the Central Park Zoo last year and evading attempts to be recaptured, has died in an apparent collision with a building ...

Flaco, New York's celebrity owl, has been spotted far outside of his longtime home of Central Park for the first time since flying free of his zoo enclosure in February. He was spotted by ...

Flaco the owl may be dead, but he continues to fly around our heads rent-free. After the Eurasian eagle owl escaped from its enclosure at the Central Park Zoo in February of 2023, he quickly became a ...

Flaco, an owl that gained notoriety after escaping from his enclosure at the Central Park Zoo a year ago, has died, according to a statement released by the zoo yesterday. The bird's death was due to ...