“It’s New York City. It’s the last thing you expect to see.” Richardson, 31, and an actor, didn’t know it then, but her feathered visitor was Flaco, an orange-eyed Eurasian eagle-owl who ...

Tributes poured in Saturday for Flaco, the beloved Eurasian eagle-owl that became a feel-good New York story after escaping its Central Park Zoo enclosure and flying free around Manhattan.

cyclists and tourists who often gathered to watch Flaco, a 13-year-old Eurasian eagle-owl, as he perched in an oak tree just west of the Museum of the City of New York. She described the hubbub ...