The Verreaux's eagle owl, also known as the ‘giant eagle owl’, is a magnificent bird of prey native to sub-Saharan Africa. Renowned for its impressive size and striking appearance, this owl is ...

Cascades Raptor Center staff spent Wednesday morning searching the rubble of a destroyed aviary for signs of their Great Horned Owl in the aftermath of the devastating storm that battered ...

A dead great horned owl is tangled in monofilament fishing line along the Tulpechocken Creek near Gring’s Mill on Monday, Jan. 13, 2025. (Jim Colflesh/Contributed photo) ...

The Times’s longtime literary critic says that like all great outlaw-heroes, the escaped Eurasian eagle-owl tapped into our desire to see an underdog claim his freedom.

The owl is believed to have consumed rat poison and been hit by a car before it was rescued Jan. 27 by Officers Matthew LaPlume and Lexus Falcone on Route 112 near Charlestown Elementary School.

Flaco’s Kingdom: Before his demise, the Eurasian eagle-owl’s escape from the Central Park Zoo and subsequent life on the loose captured the public’s attention and hearts.

The Eurasian eagle-owl is one of the world’s largest, bigger by several pounds than our impressive native great horned owl. Flaco is a male Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped, after spending more ...

Like the Mandarin duck, the Eurasian eagle owl is not native to North America, but native owl species including great horned owls and barred owls do frequent Central Park, where they dine on rats ...

A male bald eagle swoops in and chases off the owl. Seconds later, a blurring bullet of feathers enters the screen — "at Mach 5," Anderson said. A female great horned owl knocks the eagle clean ...

The Eurasian eagle-owl. With large talons, distinctive ear tufts and a wingspan of up to 79 inches, this larger owl species is not native to North America, according to the Wildlife Conservation ...

Flaco, a Eurasian eagle-owl, stands beside a trap with a rat inside. He tried to grab the rat and became briefly snared by the trap's wires, then got free and flew away. @BirdCentralPark via ...

Flaco, a Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped a vandalized enclosure at New York City's Central Park Zoo, has emerged as the city's latest avian local celebrity.