From the night Flaco escaped his snug enclosure at the Central Park Zoo in February 2023 until the day he died, a little over a year later, of complications from rat poisoning, he demonstrated a magnetism and majesty befitting his six-foot wingspan.
Crowds followed Flaco. Social media embraced him. Articles, memes, T-shirts and tattoos celebrated his liberation from the zoo and speedy adaptation to the natural world.
On March 3, 2024, hundreds attended a memorial service for Flaco beneath the oak tree where he'd kept a fiery orange eye on the bustling city beneath him.
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