Rest in peace Flaco.

@kennethmenendez8872

5 ай бұрын

rip

@caesar7734

5 ай бұрын

❤️🦉

@Readysetgo2007

5 ай бұрын

💜 Flaco

@thebestjax3

5 ай бұрын

He's not dead he with 2pac

It's a real mixed bag. On the one hand, it was cool that for a year he was "free" in the city and so many people loved seeing him visit their windows or hearing him out in the park. On the other hand, he wasn't in his natural environment and the rats he was catching weren't safe to eat. If a vandal hadn't let him out of his cage, he'd probably still be alive and well cared for. But he also would just be a regular zoo owl that nobody knew about other than zoo enthusiasts. I hope that his legacy helps give people a better appreciation and understanding of owls. That can be a positive thing to come out of this story.

@starjen222

5 ай бұрын

Well said.

@Readysetgo2007

5 ай бұрын

Yeah but I read he was living in a cage in the size of a bus stop. That felt like animal abuse to me, especially if they never let him out of the cage. The problem I see here is that horrible rat poison. They had Flaco, they could have stopped placing out rat poison. Release owls and stop with that poison I say.

@franklam3056

5 ай бұрын

He died before his birthday too :((( it’s all the vandals fault!

@estherbrown4084

5 ай бұрын

What about the idea of a more permanent memorial, perhaps in a similar style to the Duke, who is an evil owl of the animated movie Rock-A-Doodle by Don Bluth, and Barnaby the party ghost owl of the upcoming video-game Billie Bust Up?

@thisisforvids

5 ай бұрын

@@Readysetgo2007Yes. It's complicated. People only cared because he was uncommon to the ecosystem. At the same time, rat poison isn't stopping rats but it is hurting flora and fauna. The common denominator is human opulence and poor stewardship.

Rest in peace Flaco, you’re a beautiful animal and didn’t deserve to die that way.🩷

Poor baby... I just read about him the other week for the first time and thought it was so neat that he's been on his own for this long and doing well...

@Readysetgo2007

5 ай бұрын

Yeah I feel angry about the rat poison. He could have lived longer.

@PALINDROMA.

5 ай бұрын

same : ( I just learned about him a few days ago and now I'm sad

He lived and died free. RIP lil buddy.

@Readysetgo2007

5 ай бұрын

Yeah and could have lived longer without stupid people placing out rat poison.

@Former_Pastor

5 ай бұрын

​@@Readysetgo2007 Agree, that's such a cruel way for anything to die 😢

@Jaylin7878g

5 ай бұрын

@@Readysetgo2007Thats not even confirmed stop repeating everything you hear as if it is a fact.

@thekamotodragon

5 ай бұрын

he'd still be alive if he wasn't free rn. Just sayin.

@LindaC616

5 ай бұрын

​@@Readysetgo2007not confirmed yet

Poor baby! I feared something like this would happen! Flaco touched many people’s hearts and sparked interest in birds and conservation! I’ll always be thankful for that. I’ll miss hearing about him. 🥺 🦉

Nearly 1,000 migrating birds died after crashing into Chicago building. Workers at the Chicago Field Museum inspected the bodies of migrating birds that were killed when they flew into the windows of the McCormick Place Lakeside Center Oct 9, 2023. I also think that in Flaco’s case, the rat poison didn’t help his situation.

@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288

5 ай бұрын

Contact your representatives. They were working on a bill for safer buildings, now renamed the Flaco Act. Decals on window glass is not impossible to do. If we can get it passed in NYS, the rest of the nation might pick up the idea. Contact your representatives ASAP. Bird safe glass is not so hard. Flaco deserves at least that much. Rest in Power Flaco. 🦉🦅🦉

@Kelly-ml5tl

5 ай бұрын

Easily avoidable if they had etched images in the glass or decals the birds won't fly into the window if they see something there.

@drunkenhobo5039

5 ай бұрын

It's funny how wind turbines killing birds is always the big issue, but buildings kill orders of magnitude more birds and you never hear about it. Almost as if one is a threat to some of the most powerful organisations on Earth!

He's now ascended higher. Fly on, Flaco.

RIP Flaco.❤ Can’t believe he passed away.

All it takes is a simple window sticker to let the birds know it's a glass window.

@Readysetgo2007

5 ай бұрын

Exactly!

@brettbaker1229

5 ай бұрын

I didn't know there were specific stickers for preventing Birds from flying into glass 🤔 That's smart. Rest in Peace, Flaco.

@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288

5 ай бұрын

Contact your representatives. There is a bill called the Flaco Act for bird safe buildings. Not at all hard to retrofit window glass with decals. If we can pass it in NYS, maybe the rest of the nation will pay attention. Rest in Power Flaco. 🦉🦅🦉

@Nuttyirishman85

5 ай бұрын

All it takes is a bird not being stupid.

@Readysetgo2007

5 ай бұрын

@@Nuttyirishman85 username checks out...

At my job, there’s a long glass corridor that connects one building to the other, countless birds have flown into the glass thinking they can fly through and I’ve seen a lot of dead birds strewn about by the glass corridor, I feel so bad for Flaco, RIP 🙏🙏🙏

@InkHyaena

5 ай бұрын

That's so awful... Was nothing ever done to prevent the birds from running into the glass? Like anything on it to help them see something was there?

@danielp1629

5 ай бұрын

@@InkHyaenait’s a skyscraper dude

@InkHyaena

5 ай бұрын

@@danielp1629 And? People can still put things on the inside to help the birds distinguish the windows.

@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's really about placing decals on the glass. Ask your representatives about the "Flaco Act" ( this bill was already in draft form, called the safer buildings act i believe, now renamed the "Flaco Act". ). Let's lower bird strikes in NYS and maybe nationwide. Bird safe glass is not that hard. Rest in power, Flaco. 🦉🗽🦉

@truehappiness4U

4 ай бұрын

@@danielp1629people can put reflective stickers or dark stickers on windows or cheap special see through but colored business window foil inside the windows so birds can see the windows

It's very sad but I'm still glad that he got to be FREE for a while. Thank you Flaco.

long live Flaco the owl we well never forget u. Ur a symbol of New York City. l hope they well make a statue of him or name Flaco Avenue for his honor. l miss u Flaco. ur in heaven flying around the sky. Rest ln Peace 🦉

@Readysetgo2007

5 ай бұрын

He deserves a statue. 💜

@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288

5 ай бұрын

He deserves a tree!! Plant more trees of the type that was his favorite. I think he had a favorite oak tree!! Rest in power, Flaco. We miss you already. 🦉🗽🦉

@SlavaSesh

5 ай бұрын

He deserves to be forgotten.

Sad news. Rest in peace little friend 🦉 ❤

I’d been telling people since he escaped that this would happen- people on social media relentlessly argued that he was thriving and happy. RIP Flaco, he died suffering due to human vanity and ego. The zoo should have never ceased capture efforts, and we all know they gave up so quickly because of public pressure to leave him “flying free”. I see the zoo is doing a necropsy. I would wager all I’m worth that he was severely underweight and sickly, which led him to loiter around windows (he was raised by humans and associated them with food) and eventually fly into one. You cannot gauge the weight of a bird just by looking at it- he could’ve been a skeleton under all those feathers. Him being sighted eating a few rats doesn’t mean he was able to eat enough to sustain a healthy body weight. This poor bird died because of ignorance. A human freed him from his enclosure, and the humans who were charged with caring for him abandoned him so disillusioned people could fantasize about him and make him a celebrity. These birds have a lifespan of up to 65 years in captivity. He died at an age a fraction of that, confused, sickly, and alone. Nobody can justify this. The zoo should be held accountable.

@savage.4.24

5 ай бұрын

This. All of this. I knew he would 'eat a bad rat' happens to cats all the time there too. The vandal is now a murderer. The zoo failed him miserably. Some of us would scour the earth for our lost dog yet they couldn't be bothered to catch a publicly sighted unique bird?!

@cesarcueto1995

5 ай бұрын

It's even more sad after reading this. That poor owl

@shanewalters2565

5 ай бұрын

First of all, the zoo was closed when the vandalism happened. Second of all, despite the zoo's best efforts to capture him back, he became harder to track and so they just let him be. Don't go blaming the zoo for all this, blame the person that vandalized his enclosure

@cesarcueto1995

5 ай бұрын

@@shanewalters2565 It doesn't much matter now that the owl is dead but they did give up

@muscleman125

5 ай бұрын

recovering him would've been next to impossible bro. IDK if you live in the city or have ever been there, but it's not exactly a welcoming place for wildlife rescue operations. There's more private property than there is public streets and sidewalks in NYC. The moment he's not in a park or in a street, he's inaccessible to rescuers, even if they can see him on a rooftop or windowsill, they can't do anything to get to him legally.

Rest in peace, We love you, We will miss you.

@E621_Rule34

5 ай бұрын

Nah we gonna forget by tommorow

🙏 Falco the Owl might still be alive & well taken care of if not being set free by zoo vandals! 🙏 May Falco be blessed to a Better World & Realm ... 🌼🌿🌏🕊

@Readysetgo2007

5 ай бұрын

Still would had been animal abuse. He lived in a cage in the size of a bus stop. Not weird he didn't want to go back to the cage.

@justcrap3703

5 ай бұрын

​@@Readysetgo2007 ah yes so you're arguing he's better off dead. Nice job.

I’m happy he got to live free, hopefully this brings awareness to people on how we can make our cities safer for wildlife.

@jamsng

5 ай бұрын

wild life cannot survive in a city! Humans barely can. That owl should have been re-caught by the zoo. He would have lived longer.

@Specogecko

4 ай бұрын

@@jamsng wildlife can survive in a city… what kind of dumb logic is that… go outside in a city and you’ll see wildlife

We love you Flaco! Fly free forever!

What a shame! R.I.P. feathered friend.

Rest in peace beautiful boy ❤❤❤❤ u died free and loved

Fly high Flaco... rest in peace 🦉

I’m sad for Flacco.😢 RIP friend

Such a beautiful owl !! It's sad he is no longer with us. I have much gratitude for him giving joy to so many of us during his last year of life...he enjoyed his freedom.

Rest Peacefully Flaco. Keep flying in Spirit!

What a shame. At least he lived free

Heartbreaking news... 💔🦉 Losing Flaco, the escaped Central Park Zoo owl, feels like losing a part of our city's charm. Rest in peace, little friend. 🕊 🌳

Rip flaco the owl 🦉

Rest in Peace, Flaco. You will be missed, beautiful owl.🦉

Poor Flaco. 😢😢😢

This has really upset me, I hadn’t heard 😢

How tragic to hear about Flaco's passing. Escaping the confines of the zoo must have been a terrifying experience for him, and it's heartbreaking that it ultimately led to his death. Hopefully, lessons can be learned from this incident to prevent similar tragedies in the future. Rest in peace, Flaco. May you find peace beyond the confines of this world. ❤🦉

@thetest8777

5 ай бұрын

He died in freedom That place was hell for him It's like keep u in a prison cell all your life and finally have a chance to escape and see the outside Don't try to twist it

@elizabethfrohn-hengst296

5 ай бұрын

​@@thetest8777I'd rather live in a place of safety, comfort , and health than wet ,cold and dying via rat poison or massive internal hemorrhage

@Readysetgo2007

5 ай бұрын

​@@elizabethfrohn-hengst296 The rat poison was the people's fault. It's not a good method. You know his cage was in the size of a bus stop? At least he didn't have to deal with that sort of abuse in the wild.

I love Flaco had a favorite tree

R.I.P Flaco💔😢

Poor little thing!

It was one hell of a last year. Fly Free, Flaco.

The great thing for flaco is that he lived free for a year! Nothing better than that for an owl❤

Ok, the wedding. Seriously?! Let lose a flying wild animal indoors for your event. That outcome was as clear as the window.

@Readysetgo2007

5 ай бұрын

Mm ridiculous...

Damm I was just thinking about this owl the other day and talked to my parents about him. Such a shame. RIP Flaco.

Rest In Peace Flaco. You lived the life as free bird outside in the wild instead of being caged.

I’ve never seen this owl in my life, but R.I.P.

I wouldn't be surprised if he had a statue as a memorial

Rest In Peace 😭😭😭🦉

poor thing, this story brought a tear to my eye...

Fly FREE!! Fly High!! R.I.P., Poor, sweet 💜Flaco💜 !!

He suggested us a lot. The issue of zoo itself in modern age( why should he be raised in a cage in the first place), birds death by window slamming, so many rats and rat poisons in NYC, and the meaning of freedom . I wanna believe he made his choice anyway since he didn't fly back to the zoo enclosure. You were a brave bird, Flaco. Thank you for your inspiration.

😢 I had so much fun following his journey, and this broke my heart. The poison thing seems like a possibility.... I don't get what they can't employ people with trained dogs or minks or whatever for this rodent problem since the poison does more harm to everything else than the rats.

@Readysetgo2007

5 ай бұрын

Yeah it's dangerous for people's pets as well. Why I think rat poison shouldn't be used.

Rest In Peace Flaco U Beautiful Handsome Bird U Will Be Missed & Loved By Those Who Knew U😇😇🥰😘🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🪻🪻🪻🪻🪻🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌼🌼🌼🌼🌺🌺🌺🌺🌻🌻🌻❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️🧸🧸🧸🧸🎏

RIP Pretty Flaco

May Flaco rest his soul and may flaco rest in peace

Rest in peace Flaco. 💐🕯🕊

So sad today.

So incredibly sad ! I wish we could put something on windows to protect birds. May he rest in peace. ❤

May Flaco rest in peace

Rest in peace Flaco

So sad 😞, Flaco ❤

May Flaco fly free in Haven

RIP Flaco the Owl

rest in peace Flaco

Fly High Flaco 💔

Very sad, we were all rooting for him! But shame on those people who let the owl loose at the wedding @0:50. I get that they really like owls, but what did they think was going to happen, and where was it supposed to go?? People need to be a lot nicer to animals, because they don't have it as good as we do.

Im so deeply sorry 😔💔

Rest in piece beautiful bird❤ Flaco was a saint 💪🏼

😢 so devastating 💔

RIP!

Rest and peace 🕊️

Fly in peace Flaco

Poor sweet owl 🦉😞

Rip flaco🥺🙏🏻❤️

Fly on forevermore Flaco

Flaco was a legend!

So sad 😞

Poor lil Flaco. I’m sorry he couldn’t be saved. R.I.P. to the owl. 😔

One year of freedom is better than a lifetime in captivity. Deacon John.

@Readysetgo2007

5 ай бұрын

His years in captivity was abuse imo. A cage in the size of a bus stop? Come on, that's way too little room for an owl. 😐

Adorable owl flaco❤😢 miss him

Rip beautiful Flaco

Rest your soul Falco ❤️🙏

Rest in peace flaco we will miss you…

The only one to blame is the dummy who released Flaco.

Rest in peace Flaco.😢😔

I knew he wasn't safe roaming around the area like that. RIP. Not saying his cage was that much better, if at all.

It’s hard out on these suburbs… he was the best skipper in the navy… RIP

Oh no Im so sorry

😢😢RIP Flaco!!!!

Poor Flaco. Rest in peace buddy.

Poor thing😢

Sweet Flaco🦉, now you're flying in animal heaven!✝🖤💔

RIP Flaco. 🦉

Rest in peace

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Flaco sounds like an LA Mexican gang member nickname

Rip little buddy

Rest in peace flaco

Rest in piece Flaco 😢

Ain’t lie imagine escaping being kept in a cage to live freely for a year only to die by a window you can make an epic fail about it

RIP FLACO😥

Poor Flaco. RIP ❤

I literally just learned about this owl a few days ago and now its dead! That's so sad :(

Flaco you will be remembered

Oh no 💕