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An owl that escaped from the Central Park Zoo after his exhibit was vandalized has been on the unfastened ever since as park rangers and even cops have been mobilized to seek for the hen of prey. Photograph courtesy of NYC Parks
Feb. 4 (UPI) — An owl that escaped from the Central Park Zoo after his exhibit was vandalized has been on the unfastened ever since as park rangers and even cops have been mobilized to seek for the hen of prey.
Flaco, a Eurasian eagle owl, went lacking from his exhibit round 8:30 p.m. on Thursday after the chrome steel mesh of the enclosure was lower, the Central Park Zoo said in a statement Friday.
“A staff was mobilized to seek for the hen. Residents and police noticed the owl on the sidewalk on Fifth Avenue however it flew off,” zoo officers mentioned.
The workplace of New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams shared a photo of officers with the NYPD standing guard at an space of the sidewalk cordoned of with police tape as Flaco checked out bystanders.
“Effectively, that was a hoot. We tried to assist this lil clever man, however he had sufficient of his rising viewers and flew off,” the NYPD’s nineteenth Precinct mentioned in a post on Twitter.
“Rangers, be looking out — he was final seen flying south on Fifth Avenue.”Zoo workers later situated the owl perched in a tree close to the zoo and stayed with it all through the evening, the Central Park Zoo mentioned in its assertion Friday.
“At dawn this morning, the owl flew from the tree on fifth Avenue and into Central Park the place we proceed to have visible contact with the hen,” the assertion reads.
“Our focus and energy right now is on the protected restoration of the owl.”Rangers with the New York Metropolis Division of Parks & Recreation shared a photograph of Flaco perched in a tree in Hallett Sanctuary, a nature protect on the southeast nook of Central Park, on Friday morning.
“We ask that parkgoers give area in order that he will be rescued,” NYC Parks mentioned in the statement.
Flaco first arrived on the Central Park Zoo in 2010 and is likely one of the largest species of owl.
Birdwatchers throughout the Large Apple have since tried to snag pictures of the escaped owl, a lot of which have been shared by the account Manhattan Bird Alert.
