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 his life in captivity.
But 12 days after he flew the coop, the nocturnal bird of prey is proving his doubters wrong. He's not only showing he's an agile aviator, swooping from tree to tree along"Billionaires' Row" on Central Park South, but he's also a quick study when it comes to hunting, zoo officials said.
A team of zoo staffers armed with nets and traps had been monitoring Flaco's movements around-the-clock as he avoided their attempts to"rescue" him. One big concern is that Flaco could eat a poisoned rat. In August 2021, a barred owl nicknamed"Barry" by Central Park birders was killed when it flew into the path of a Central Park Conservancy maintenance vehicle. A necropsy done on Barry detected a potentially lethal level of rat poison that could have impaired the owl's flying abilities, officials said.
"I just wanted to see him. I just think it's really fun," said Jen Roff, an economics professor at The City University of New York, who glimpsed Flaco through her binoculars as he slept in a tree Monday afternoon."I think he's beautiful. He's gorgeous."
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