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 ...

Owls have beguiled humans forever. And it’s easy to see ourselves in a chubby little homebody who ditched his one-room apartment for the great outdoors. By Michiko Kakutani Once upon a time, there was ...

The Times’s longtime literary critic says that like all great outlaw-heroes, the escaped Eurasian eagle-owl tapped into our desire to see an underdog claim his freedom. “The Ballad of Flaco” began ...

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 ...

"We are going to continue monitoring Flaco and his activities." Would Flaco, a majestic Eurasian eagle-owl, go hungry because he hadn't developed an ability to hunt while in captivity? With a ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl that escaped from the Central Park Zoo in 2023, is still with us (even though he’s dead). He spent about a year roaming New York ...

At dusk the other night, I flew to Central Park to see my old friend Flaco. “Oh,” Flaco said, nodding his feathered head in the direction of a newsstand. “Looks like I’m on the cover of the Post again ...

Excerpted from "The Book of Flaco: The World's Most Famous Bird" by nature writer David Gessner, available now from Blair. Reprinted with permission. The first time I saw the cage where Flaco, the ...

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 ...