New York lawmakers have renamed the proposed Bird Safe Buildings Act to the FLACO Act, honoring the memory of the beloved Eurasian eagle-owl who tragically collided with a building on Manhattan's Upper West Side, leading to his death.
Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped from New York City’s Central Park Zoo and became one of the city’s most beloved celebrities as he flew around Manhattan, has died. A little over one year after he was freed from his cage at the zoo in a criminal act that has yet to be solved, Flaco appears to have collided with an Upper West Side building, the zoo said in a statement., US News News, Times Now