An owl who escaped from the Central Park Zoo after someone damaged his cage has become New York City’s latest avian celebrity, attracting gawkers as he surveys the park from one tall tree or another but stoking fears that he can’t hunt and will starve
in the southeast section of the park. Flaco has spent part of his time on the grounds of the zoo he fled, but he has not returned to captivity on his own.
Wednesday found Flaco commanding a view of Wollman Rink’s ice skaters from an oak tree in the park’s Hallett Nature Sanctuary. A small crowd watched from a respectful distance. Kenny Kwiok, a retired correction officer in the state prison system, was more sanguine about the owl’s survival in the wild. “I think he can survive,” Kwiok said. “If he learned how to fly I guess he can learn how to hunt.”
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