Flaco the Escaped Central Park Zoo Owl Is My King
The Eurasian eagle owl has been on the lam since early February, and dare I say he is hotter than the hot duck.
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Here are two facts: It is bad that someone vandalized the Central Park Zoo enclosure of Flaco the Eurasian eagle owl, allowing him to escape earlier this month. Also, New York bird Twitter hasn’t been this good since the reign of the East Asian Mandarin Duck, better known as the “hot duck” who ghosted us in 2018, as hot Manhattan boys tend to do.
I have followed Flaco’s saga via the intrepid reporters at Gothamist and my favorite Twitter account, Manhattan Bird Alert. Wildlife advocates were concerned that the escaped owl, a majestic creature with searing amber eyes who’s lived in captivity for years, wouldn’t know how to survive on his own. Zoo staff tried to lure him into traps with his favorite meal, dead rats, but he rebuffed these efforts and started hunting rats and generally thriving on his own.
Just look at this king: