Flaco the Central Park owl legacy
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Documentary 'Wild Inside' Tracks Life of Escaped NYC Owl Flaco
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Flaco escaped from the Central Park Zoo after his enclosure mesh was cut.
In February 2023, Flaco the Eurasian eagle-owl escaped from the Central Park Zoo. Reports indicate that someone deliberately cut the mesh of his enclosure, allowing the bird to flee into the city.
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New York City Council approved Flaco's Law to replace rodenticides with contraceptives.
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Flaco died after colliding with a building on West 89th Street.
Flaco, a Eurasian eagle-owl, escaped from the Central Park Zoo in February 2023 after someone deliberately cut the mesh of his enclosure [1]. Zoo officials suspended efforts to recapture him after two weeks because he learned to hunt rats [8]. He survived as a free bird in Manhattan for over a year [2].
Flaco died after crashing into a building on West 89th Street [3]. A necropsy found he had been weakened by pigeon herpes virus and had four kinds of anticoagulants common in rodenticide [4].