The baby owl Flaco Jr. will have another chance at life after falling earlier this week from a 70-foot nest on Long Island. It was brought to Sweetbriar Nature Center in Smithtown.
Meet Flaco Jr.!The baby owl will have another chance at life after falling earlier this week from a 70-foot nest on Long Island.The 1-2 week old animal was found on the ground by a woman, who initially thought it was leftover snow.Sweetbriar Nature Center in Smithtown made a brand-new nest and – thanks to help from PSEG – was able to re-nest the animal with two other babies. The mother is already back feeding them.
"Staff from the Wild Bird Fund, a wildlife rehabilitation center, responded to the scene and declared Flaco dead shortly after the collision. He was taken to the Bronx Zoo for a necropsy."We hoped only to see Flaco hooting wildly from the top of our local water tower, never in the clinic," the World Bird Fund wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.Flaco's time in the sky began on Feb.
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