Flaco the owl honored in Central Park

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Saturday was a sad day for New Yorkers and bird lovers across the country after the Central Park Zoo announced the death of Flaco the owl. He became somewhat of a celebrity after escaping from the Central Park Zoo and flying free in the city for more than a year. CBS New York's Kristie Keleshian shows us how Flaco is being remembered.

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@marieboyle6183 6 ай бұрын

Just a bird flying free can bring people together ❤️..you said it all young man.

@Moss_piglets 6 ай бұрын

And now he's dead because he was left to fend for himself in an environment where he has no learned skills

@marieboyle6183 6 ай бұрын

@@Moss_piglets he lived a year..he crashed into one of our ugly glass buildings.

@Moss_piglets 6 ай бұрын

@@marieboyle6183 and you think that was a great way for him to go instead of returning to the zoo where he would've lived longer and fed? He was a non native species that didn't have the important skills to live outside the zoo. If he didn't die from collision, he would eventually starve or eat poisoned rats. There's no one to blame but the folks who wanted him to "live wild and free" and prevented his capture. I hope these folks are happy for the outcome they've created. This was a preventable tragedy. His "freedom" was an early death sentence because people put their interests first over the bird's welfare. The people who celebrated his release lacked care and awareness of bird collisions not to mention the anthropomorphizing. He spent his last year exhausted and hungry. People who don't work in conservation or rescue birds in the city have such twisted views of wildlife and think "omg he's free now" which completely misses the reality of the situation.

@Stage21films 6 ай бұрын

I invite you to my channel to see more about Flaco's memorial. Thank you, I'm waiting for you.

@sharlharmakhis280 6 ай бұрын

humans will pack-bond with anything and that is a *good thing*

@donaldsperring5055 6 ай бұрын

My condolences on the loss of Flaco. A beautiful creature was lost.

@Stage21films 6 ай бұрын

I invite you to my channel to see more about Flaco's memorial. Thank you, I'm waiting for you..

@debrabolton9372 6 ай бұрын

R.I.P. Flaco. You were a beautiful bird.❤

@Stage21films 6 ай бұрын

I invite you to my channel to see more about Flaco's memorial. Thank you, I'm waiting for you.

@wintersprite 6 ай бұрын

Poor Flaco. Owls are beautiful and one of my favorite animals.

@Stage21films 6 ай бұрын

I invite you to my channel to see more about Flaco's memorial. Thank you, I'm waiting for you.

@LCx829 6 ай бұрын

Rip Flaco. He died but he was a free bird.

@melissasmith6762 6 ай бұрын

That's what HAPPENS to a "free bird."

@user-pe4ym2lg5e 6 ай бұрын

Yeah a free bird who lived in the zoo without problems within a year he is dead. that's humans for u. u don't care about him if u did stop building homes n parks in wildlife areas

@Stage21films 6 ай бұрын

I invite you to my channel to see more about Flaco's memorial. Thank you, I'm waiting for you.

@tweaker1bms 6 ай бұрын

*Begins guitar solo*

@seandewar47 6 ай бұрын

"He died, but he was free." Dude, Flacco was born and raised in captivity. That enclosure was his home and was living a long and happy life and would have for many more years had he not been scared away by a bunch of Anti-zoo dumbasses that think they knew what's best for the animal.

@frankforce9241 6 ай бұрын

God bless! You will be missed RIP Flacco

@Stage21films 6 ай бұрын

I invite you to my channel to see more about Flaco's memorial. Thank you, I'm waiting for you.

@NYandAZ 6 ай бұрын

I’m so sad! I’ve been following his journey for the year. I wish they would have gotten him back so this didn’t happen. 💔😫 RIP Flaco. I hope your last year of freedom was amazing and wonderful. You had a lot of people who loved you.

@Moss_piglets 6 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, some people who aren't experts prevented the capture. This is the result of his "freedom". An early death sentence.

@rosegann8339 6 ай бұрын

RIP beautiful Flacco! You will be missed ❤😢

@Stage21films 6 ай бұрын

I invite you to my channel to see more about Flaco's memorial. Thank you, I'm waiting for you.

@LOLWAAHH 6 ай бұрын

His updates were a positive beam of light in a sea of bad news, as an UWS resident following his journey since he escaped, I’m devastated.

@melissasmith6762 6 ай бұрын

I'm glad 🤭

@paddy9449 6 ай бұрын

Fly on Flaco!!!!!!!! May your wings never tire!!!!! 🦉🦉🦉

@Stage21films 6 ай бұрын

I invite you to my channel to see more about Flaco's memorial. Thank you, I'm waiting for you.

@r.j.2546 6 ай бұрын

So sad for this beautiful owl. Bless his little soul. I hope they do memorialize him in some way. And help other birds from same fate.❤❤

@MothGirl007 6 ай бұрын

Legend. 🙏💔😭

@xobkizum 6 ай бұрын

RIP Flaco

@DonnieTNJ 6 ай бұрын

It's amazing he was able to survive this long, there are so many windows and glass in NYC

@alvernonbrownjr8654 6 ай бұрын

✨🦉🦉✨ Rest In Heaven, Flacco

@Stage21films 6 ай бұрын

I invite you to my channel to see more about Flaco's memorial. Thank you, I'm waiting for you.

@acgillespie 6 ай бұрын

Owls are so very cool. I been blessed to have a few sightings and even communicated with it. very smart they are

@Stage21films 6 ай бұрын

I invite you to my channel to see more about Flaco's memorial. Thank you, I'm waiting for you.

@Stage21films 6 ай бұрын

I invite you to my channel to see more about Flaco's memorial. Thank you, I'm waiting for you.

@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288 6 ай бұрын

Rest in Power Flaco. We are missing you already. We were lucky to know you. A real loss, especially after the luck we all had with Pale Male and his clan. Flaco, let your spirit visit Central Park from time to time. Stay awesome. 🗽🦉🗽

@EffSharp 6 ай бұрын

Oh I’m so sad. I loved him.

@michelegulli8209 6 ай бұрын

I loved following updates @ Flaco sightings. What a beautiful, handsome guy. Mixed emotions @ being free or captivity 😢 Flaco u will be truly missed. Fly free in Heaven ❤💋

@rramos3157 6 ай бұрын

Aww, so sad! RIP Flaco!😢

@Stage21films 6 ай бұрын

I invite you to my channel to see more about Flaco's memorial. Thank you, I'm waiting for you.

@pussycat6903 6 ай бұрын

Rest in Peace poor guy, shame on those that caused your escape from zoo. You lived a good life and had some freedom. Good luck in there after, you will be missed

@randallmarsh1187 6 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, this was always going to be the outcome for Flaco flying free in NYC! It was going to be either flying into a building (as happened), getting hit by an auto or eating a rat poisoned with rat poison. I'm really disappointed that the zoo he escaped from didn't put more effort in trying to re-capture him!

@melissasmith6762 6 ай бұрын

THANK YOU.

@seandewar47 6 ай бұрын

They did everything they could to try and recapture him, but every attempt was interrupted by activists... so if you wanna blame anyone, blame the Dipshits who destroyed his enclosure and prevents all rescue attempts

@seandewar47 3 ай бұрын

Every attempt to rescue Flacco was stopped and interrupted by fans/Anti-zoo dipshits. Catching a fully flighted bird is already difficult in the best circumstances, never-ending when your actions are being actively impeded

@lisalister8002 6 ай бұрын

Fly high Floco! Glad you had a year of freedom!

@Stage21films 6 ай бұрын

I invite you to my channel to see more about Flaco's memorial. Thank you, I'm waiting for you.

@drallomuve7928 6 ай бұрын

Fly high Flaco!

@vandalorianvandalorian4769 6 ай бұрын

Flacco was on the verge of curing cancer. So sad. He also would have made a great president!

@JPVillalobos27 6 ай бұрын

He would’ve been better than the two choices we have in front of us.

@peterbathum2775 6 ай бұрын

and his starring roles in several broadway plays will be impossible to fill

@vandalorianvandalorian4769 6 ай бұрын

@@peterbathum2775 oh I know. It’s like there’s only one John Lennon. Flacco can not be replaced. Truly a national tragedy.

@melissawarfield 6 ай бұрын

Sweet Flaco you had a taste of freedom. I'm very sad 😭 today for the loss of Flaco. May Flaco fly free at the Rainbow 🌈🌈 Bridge. RIP sweet Flaco.

@ringdoorbell3223 6 ай бұрын

SHARON SHNEYER, Perhaps if Flaco had more suitable and larger living quarters this could have been prevented, with that said, however, a glimpse of Flaco a day for a brief moment took my worries away. You will be missed. RIP Flaco

@seandewar47 3 ай бұрын

@ringdoorbell3223 no, that wouldn't have helped, as he already had an adequate enclosure, especially considering Owls aren't very active birds and spend the majority of their time sleeping in one spot anyway. But expecting Anti-zoo activists to actually know how animals work is like expecting a bird to learn sign language

@VedawatiAlbert-mi1tb 6 ай бұрын

They should maybe name something after him in New York

@Stage21films 6 ай бұрын

I invite you to my channel to see more about Flaco's memorial. Thank you, I'm waiting for you.

@seimamahmud2518 6 ай бұрын

RIP Flaco...free forever now 😢😢😢

@butterflygorbea 6 ай бұрын

Rest in peace, my beautiful Flaco

@ElementofKindness 6 ай бұрын

He may have gotten free, but that didn't stop the city from ultimately causing his death..

@seandewar47 6 ай бұрын

And by "Free" you mean "Stranded." He was essentially chased away from his home by Anti-zoo dumbasses who vandalized it, forced to live in NYC for a whole year, and any rescue attempts were interrupted by the same kind of people that scared him out of the zoo

@mathiasmapes9508 6 ай бұрын

Fly high Flaco, I’ll miss seeing your pictures posted online ❤

@Stage21films 6 ай бұрын

I invite you to my channel to see more about Flaco's memorial. Thank you, I'm waiting for you.,

@GT-mn3bx 6 ай бұрын

Flaco was eating lots of rats and mice. There's a few videos. Gorgeous bird.

@bettyboop1568 6 ай бұрын

🕊️🦉🕊️💜

@demetriushenson4404 6 ай бұрын

RIP...FLACO May your wings soar in the sky blue and world loves you

@Kadasberry11 6 ай бұрын

This actually bummed me out! I’ve never been a bird watcher but his story was captivating when I first heard of his escape. It’s sad the fears of him being free in NYC (aka potential to be poisoned because it’s filthy) came to fruition 😢

@lefantomer 6 ай бұрын

R.I.P. Flaco. That's a tough neighborhood -- I used to live there -- and those high-rises will getcha every time. But you've now become part of NYC and Central Park lore.

@karenharris722 6 ай бұрын

We used to have owls where I live, but I haven't seen one in a long time. I really miss them! RIP Flaco!

@cowgirlup1081 6 ай бұрын

It happens even in the country but sounds like he brought a lot of happiness in the big city

@VedawatiAlbert-mi1tb 6 ай бұрын

May he RIP😢

@yourenough3 6 ай бұрын

❤ so sad. Fly free Flaco

@nightstalker5282 6 ай бұрын

The zoo didn't have a tranquilizer to capture him? They know he slept at that tree and didn't even bother to set up an owl house trap to get him.

@donaldvonglitchenberger4108 6 ай бұрын

who cares he got his freedom in his twilight year. it’s better to be free for a year that caged for life

@nightstalker5282 6 ай бұрын

@@donaldvonglitchenberger4108 pandas have entered the chat 👀 😅

@claysmoker1 6 ай бұрын

At least he got a year of freedom before his passing. RIP Flaco, you will be remembered,

@kaibilbalam7151 6 ай бұрын

RIP FLACO🙏🏽🤦🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽😢ALL BIRDS GO TO HEAVEN🙏🏽

@Butterrcuppp 6 ай бұрын

I knew it. They’d only attempt to capture him again if he was showing distress. Great job by the caretakers of this bird for giving up.

@melissasmith6762 6 ай бұрын

Absolutely correct.

@seandewar47 6 ай бұрын

Every attempt to re-capture was interrupted by Activists who wanted him to be "free" so if you want to blame anyone, blame them

@Butterrcuppp 6 ай бұрын

@@seandewar47 no, they stopped trying

@melissasmith6762 6 ай бұрын

@@ButterrcupppRight again! They caved to the pressure of their absolute enemies, people who think animals are better off dead than in captivity.

@melissasmith6762 6 ай бұрын

@@seandewar47 Both are culpable. Do you have more information?

@peterbathum2775 6 ай бұрын

a sad loss for the country. Flaco was a standard bearer for wild life existing within one of the largest cities in the world. It is an honorable legacy to raise awareness of the danger of glass and reflective materials to killing birds. you need to place visible obstruction, grid/dots/etching etc. 2" wide and 2" tall for both reflection and transparency to prevent birds flying into glass or any reflective surfaces. I had heard a bird strike a window recently and looked it up ...

@melissasmith6762 6 ай бұрын

Lol shut up, this bird was never supposed to be "free."

@lorettanericcio-bohlman567 6 ай бұрын

@@melissasmith6762try and learn something rather than your usual rudeness

@melissasmith6762 6 ай бұрын

@@lorettanericcio-bohlman567I've learned plenty, including about the absolute half wits involved with this situation, you included.

@Romicus22 6 ай бұрын

So sad. Fly high, Flaco.

@electric_girl 6 ай бұрын

LoVE* you* forever* *sweet* Flaco* ✨❤️

@Artem_Babych 6 ай бұрын

Such a glorious and beautiful bird...

@lindaburnette675 6 ай бұрын

🥹🥹🥹 So sad Flaco is no longer with us.

@Stage21films 6 ай бұрын

I invite you to my channel to see more about Flaco's memorial. Thank you, I'm waiting for you.

@steven2183 6 ай бұрын

I only learned of you recently Flaco but I am grateful to have known you...

@rositarumble4880 6 ай бұрын

FLACO OUR BELOVED OWL MAY YOU FLY HIGH TO YOUR FOREVER HOME. WE WILL MISS YOU AND NEVER WE WILL FORGET YOU. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@The1_Blackswan 6 ай бұрын

I love you, Flaco🦉! 🖤💔 But love should start with protecting New York's birds better in the first place, not with having to mourn them in the end!❣

@ShadowsandCityLights 6 ай бұрын

First Big Ounce and now Flaco. This is a great start to the new year.

@Stage21films 6 ай бұрын

I invite you to my channel to see more about Flaco's memorial. Thank you, I'm waiting for you.

@jenf8386 6 ай бұрын

Y’all are wild! Your so upset he passed away yet your the same ones that signed the petition for him to be “free” in NYC instead of letting him be caught and put back into his safe enclosure or put him back into the wilderness where he might have lived longer and your the same ones who poison the rats in your city that you know him and other birds/animals will be eating and suffer the consequences…. Makes no sense

@donaldvonglitchenberger4108 6 ай бұрын

cool rant

@musicalme27 6 ай бұрын

Rest in peace, dear Flaco. Fly free in Heaven. 😢😢😢😢😢😢

@haveaseatmarj 6 ай бұрын

St francis of assisi bestow your warmth over our grief

@roytallericoGunner 6 ай бұрын

I have complained with others about lights and windows at night..that lead to bird collisions. Now New York is bringing about the Flaco act to change those building flaws. He didn't die for nothing. I hope to get a good picture of him. Devastated me.

@Petemonster62 6 ай бұрын

Flaco being followed after he left the zoo cage is sort of an unintentional experiment. Flaco was a better non-native bird than pigeons, starlings, and English sparrows! I listened to the 1955 do-wop song "Night Owl" by Tony Allen and The Champs in his honor!

@I_like_Plants130 6 ай бұрын

If people were fearful of the owl getting poisoned from rat poisoning. Shouldn’t we consider the rest of wildlife too? Besides there are other methods of getting rid of rats than to poison them. I remember hearing about a dog hunting group which would actively target rats at night (in nyc?? I think) But yeah, I heard about birds getting severely injured when colliding with windows in large buildings in cities.

@Presenterbloke 5 ай бұрын

What a terrible shame! I adored Flaco.

@kiauni6818 6 ай бұрын

Someone had to of poisoned him. They just talked about him. They drew attention to him and said tht they didnt want him to get poisoned. Now look.

@donaldvonglitchenberger4108 6 ай бұрын

and how would someone manage to catch an owl and then poison him? that makes no sense

@jbjacobs9514 6 ай бұрын

This sounds like a Zapruder film. The owl was murdered. Also, can we (sadness aside, because I love owls and they are very majestic - I love their hooting; reporter can save her "who-ing" for a Tootsie Pop commercial) not watch this video without comparing him to Joe Flacco? His escape from zoo jail may have been a comeback, but in the end, tragedy was bound to occur.

@charlesdobbs4570 6 ай бұрын

Bunmer. RIP you beautiful bird.

@BlackFlagHeathen 6 ай бұрын

I hope they put up a commemorative plaque by that tree. RIP, Flaco. ❤️🦉

@paulsawczyc5019 6 ай бұрын

Monsters are the ones keeping birds in cages - and the monsters call the person that set the owl free a "vandal" - these monsters are the ones that belong in a cage.

@VedawatiAlbert-mi1tb 6 ай бұрын

But he may have eaten a rat that might have had eat poison that's why he may have hit the window. Owls live up to 20 years in the wild but in captivity 60 years,he was only 14years😢

@LCx829 6 ай бұрын

It’s sad he died but it’s amazing he finally was free. I can just imagine his last year of life was his best year ever.

@paulsawczyc5019 6 ай бұрын

@@VedawatiAlbert-mi1tb There are always dead birds at the bottom of glass skyscrapers - I have seen them many times in NYC, and it pisses me off. Doormen are instructed to remove them immediately.

@melissasmith6762 6 ай бұрын

@@LCx829 He suffered, he just wanted to eat. Owls are DUMB af and don't know how to go home.

@melissasmith6762 6 ай бұрын

@@paulsawczyc5019You are a 🤡 Maybe you broke into the cage.

@shiraisrael-levin1651 6 ай бұрын

I feel like crying.😢

@User_yhvz 6 ай бұрын

This will be national news for an entire week unfortunately

@jbjacobs9514 6 ай бұрын

Better than Trump, Taylor Swift, Aaron Rodgers, or immigration.

@sunfish77 6 ай бұрын

Flaco is just a distraction from what's really going on.

@User_yhvz 6 ай бұрын

@@jbjacobs9514 that is true lmao

@donaldvonglitchenberger4108 6 ай бұрын

i hope so. i can’t take the news anymore

@ughmazing8073 6 ай бұрын

This makes me so sad 😢

@your_friend_julie534 6 ай бұрын

He was adorable❤️😢

@kristinebalena3969 6 ай бұрын

Very sad😢

@rosaliecolon6845 6 ай бұрын

Falco was a beautiful owl, may he rest in peace. He died a free bird the way God created them to be free.

@Sunshine-do3yv 6 ай бұрын

We love you FLACO........❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

@Moss_piglets 6 ай бұрын

There's no one to blame but the folks who wanted him to "live wild and free". I hope these folks are happy for the outcome they've created. This was a preventable tragedy. It is a non native species in an area that it doesn't belong. He was almost captured but a certain group, whom I won't name, intervened and he escaped again. It's extremely disheartening when people put their interests first over an animal's welfare. There are thousands of birds that die from collision in NYC or die from eating poisoned rats. The people who celebrated his release lacked care and awareness of bird collisions not to mention the anthropomorphizing. There are people who will say, "well, he lived freely and was probably happy". No. He was raised in captivity. He never learned to hunt and doesn't have the survival skills like those in the wild. He would've spent his last year exhausted and hungry. He was left to fend for himself in an environment where he has no learned survival skills. His "freedom" was an early death sentence. People have such twisted views of wildlife and think "omg he's free now" which completely misses the reality of the situation

@mrc1737 6 ай бұрын

Yes a sad ending indeed 😢 Though…at least he died a “free bird”. RIP Flaco 😢

@toddfarthing8760 6 ай бұрын

One day of freedom is worth more then 60 years in a gilded cage

@Apawsitivelife 6 ай бұрын

Oh nooo 😢

@KennedyMusicTheories 6 ай бұрын

Lynryrd Skynyrd said it best...FREE BIRD

@florencearnow279 6 ай бұрын

Very sad he died, but at least he knew a little freedom. I wish I'd seen him other than at the zoo.Today, you could not hear the memorial for all the people whjo came to honor him. RIP dear owl.You are missed.

@trevortillman898 6 ай бұрын

Rip Flaco

@robertafierro5592 6 ай бұрын

Poor Flaco

@georgkoenig4459 6 ай бұрын

Fly free in heaven Flaco. 😞🦅

@deb3710 6 ай бұрын

Rest in Peace beautiful Flaco. 💙🦉💙 💔😥💐

@markdanielczyk944 6 ай бұрын

Bummer!

@michaelrmurphy2734 6 ай бұрын

If he had stayed in the cage he would still be alive, likely. RIP Flaco.

@Mary-bj6xb 6 ай бұрын

When does Falcon get a statue? That tree would be a nice place.

@pleasejustdobetter 6 ай бұрын

RIP Flaco. Flaco's favorite roosting tree should be landmarked.

@lisaawild 6 ай бұрын

Fy free, Flaco

@jackietrujillo9612 6 ай бұрын

poor Flaco its sad. The zoo could have capture him but never bother to do it. They are responsible for his death. lt breaks my heart. Flaco is in heaven flying with beautiful white wings. well miss Flaco and build a statue to honor him. 🦉 Flaco spirit well be on the tree.

@melissasmith6762 6 ай бұрын

EXACTLY! 🙌

@crystalheart9 6 ай бұрын

I thought they had rescued him. It wasn't safe out in the city. This was sad news to start the day. RIP Flaco 🦉🌈💖

@chastitylampkin6028 6 ай бұрын

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹😭😭🌹😭🌹🌹😭🌹🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🌹😭🌹🌹🌹🤦🏾‍♀️🌹🌹🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹😭😭😭😭🤦🏾‍♀️🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹😭😭😭🤦🏾‍♀️🌹🌹🌹😭🌹🌹🤦🏾‍♀️🌹 rest in peace sweet flaco owl birdie 🐦 !!!! Christine chastity lampkin t.v. now u in heaven. All sweet animals goes to heaven no matter what !!!!

@travels3577 6 ай бұрын

✨🕊✨

@VashtiPersad-w1r 6 ай бұрын

Flavor remains me of Hoots from Sesame Street,Hoots use to spend his days on that street the make believe street and than he would leave with his saxophone saying that he was going to jam in central park ,maybe Flaco was Hoots .Rest in peace night boy only we meet again.