A great horned owl at the Habitat Education Center in Belmont died after ingesting rat poison, Mass Audubon announced Wednesday. A visitor called Mass Audubon on Nov. 5 when they saw the owl appearing ...

Flaco, the loose Central Park Zoo owl, died with lethal levels of rat poison in his system. Rodenticides used in cities like New York also poison other wildlife, especially birds of prey. The problem ...

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NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- The Central Park Zoo has revealed new information about Flaco the Owl's cause of death. The zoo says postmortem testing found Flaco was infected with a virus due to eating ...

Flaco, the beloved Eurasian eagle-owl who died in Manhattan last month, had high levels of rat poison in his system and was suffering from "a severe pigeon herpesvirus" at the time of his passing, the ...

Flaco, the iconic Eurasian eagle owl that died after colliding with a building in Manhattan last month, had underlying health conditions that could have contributed to the incident. According to the ...

Q. This spring we had a rat problem – they were eating all our vegetables, getting into the cars and causing all sorts of destruction. We eventually put out poison in bait boxes, but now we’re finding ...

I am 100% certain Kate DiCamillo knows that owls eat rats and that’s one of the reasons I love her second “Orris and Timble” book, about an owl and a rat who are friends. The new one, “Orris and ...

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