Central Park Zoo Eurasian eagle owl "Flaco" set free by vandals at Central Park Zoo

Don Majeski said:
Penguins have been bred at the zoo
If the zoo’s intent is to exhibit singletons then the idea is not Avery good one .
A relatively small aviary to house a pair of eagle owls in separate enclosures when not breeding would be a far superior idea than a single individual
As to their “plan” I have no idea what it is .
Had they maintained breeding polar bears NYC - which once maintained three separate - if poorly planned - populations in Prospect Park, Bronx and Central Park.
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Eagle Owls in captivity form happily bonded pairs and will stay together all year round
 
ZooElephantMan said:
New York State Legislators have renamed a statewide bird-safe buildings act to the FLACO Act (Flaco stands for Feathered Lives Also COunt). The act would require new buildings and altered buildings to use bird-safe designs, especially in their windows to avoid strikes. Here's the link: https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/p...islators-advocates-rename-statewide-bird-safe
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Hopefully this means at least something good will come out of this incident. Bird collision strikes with windows/buildings is a really serious issue to innumerable songbird species.
 
ZooElephantMan said:
New York State Legislators have renamed a statewide bird-safe buildings act to the FLACO Act (Flaco stands for Feathered Lives Also COunt). The act would require new buildings and altered buildings to use bird-safe designs, especially in their windows to avoid strikes. Here's the link: https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/p...islators-advocates-rename-statewide-bird-safe
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Good idea.So, when more vandals release exotic birds from captivity they’ll safer at large.
Did they also increase the penalty and set minimum sentencing guidelines from the thieves who - essentially - steal these animals from the institutions and the public who support them?
 
TinoPup said:
Neil already covered this well, but again, the owls are a solitary species. Even if a place is breeding the species, they're usually kept alone most of the time.
Exactly, you have no idea what their plan is, so why are you telling them what to do? You don't seem to know much about how zoos work in general.
They didn't choose not to breed polar bears, or keep the species. Polar bears are really struggling in captivity and rarely breed; there's been 0-2 births for quite a few years now. Old bears are dying, and there's none to replace with them. You can't force animals to breed.
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Breeding polar bears in the Americas has been struggling bc of inept legislation and AZA falling for a rationale that ain't one.

Polar bears remain endangered and all the more so now with climate change and melting Arctic sea ice and the other ranges along Greenland and Nova Zembliya and north-eastern Arctic circle above Russia and Siberia.

The mode of operation within AZA to prevent breeding for years with wildborn Arctic polar bears on the Canadian coastline and Arctic I view as quite deplorable and led to the population being stagnant and continue ageing and no replacement strategy in place (that also led fully reproductive individuals or new founders not to be bred. It has only recently been reviewed and it remains to be seen how things develop in the next 5-10 years.
 
Smaggledagle said:
On May 29th, it was reported that Flaco's wings and tissue samples were moved to the American Museum of Natural History's scientific collection (not on public display) and the rest of the body was archived at the Bronx Zoo's Wildlife Health Center.

Flaco, the escaped Central Park Zoo owl, died in February. What happened to his remains?
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And still now arrest of the vandals who’s actions resulted in the death of this animal nor Eagle Owl replacement in what should be an improved facility to house the species once again
 
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