New York's favorite fugitive from custody, Flaco the Eurasian eagle-owl, is going on walk about.
After thriving in Central Park he is heading to the East Village.
I'm actually a bit worried, the use or rat poison is more common outside of the parks, and that's his main diet.
Flaco the Eurasian eagle-owl, whose February escape from the Central Park Zoo captured the public’s attention in New York and beyond, turned up in Manhattan’s East Village on Monday, about five miles from the wooded park area he had settled into since flying free.
Just before 5 p.m., Flaco, who had spent most of the past nine months in and around the park’s North Woods section, could be seen perched on a tree branch in a sculpture garden next to Kenkeleba House, an artists’ space on East Second Street between Avenues B and C.
About five minutes later, he swooped down, turned left and found a landing spot on a building on East Third Street, sitting placidly between two shrubs, silhouetted against the twilight sky. A few minutes later, he flew off again, headed east to points unknown.
It appeared to be the first significant foray outside the park for Flaco, who learned quickly how to fend for himself after fleeing the zoo, feasting on a steady diet of rats despite fears that his having lived his entire 13-year life in captivity had dulled his survival instincts.
We need to stop trying to get him back into the zoo, and find him a girl friend.
It appears that there have been cases of Eurasian eagle owls and great horned owls breeding in captivity, so this could be achieved without the risk of introduction of (yet another) invasive species into the Americas.
We just need to find an inter-species owl dating service. (I'm afraid to Google that one)
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