Brian Laird on WNYc on WNYc and we're going to try to end on sort of a lighter note now, even though it also involves a death,

but we're going to open our phones for your eulogies for Flacko, the Owl, or Rover the Eagle, or Your stories of your relationship

with any other bird celebrities, so to 212 433 WNYC 212 433 9692 if you miss the news the

late Eurasian eagle owl who captured the hearts of New Yorkers after he escaped the Central Park Zoo last February, Flaco, died over the weekend.

The Wildlife Conservation Society says the cause of death was an apparent

collision with a building. There are policy questions around that, but in his

year of freedom Flaka was often spotted in Central Parks, North Woods.

I have one personal story which is only that I was walking around in that area

last year and saw a crowd gathered and it's like why is this crowd here in kind of

of a fairly remote part of Central Park and somebody coming out of the crowd said oh they see Flocco. So that kept

happening and kept happening. Who among you listening right now was ever in one of

those crowds that would spot Flocco and hang around to watch Flaco.

212 433 WNYC and now in death his fans turned a large tree in those woods into a memorial,

according to the Westside Rag, one of the cards left at the bottom of the tree

read, you moved us all, we loved you so much.

So in the last 10 minutes of our show today, who else wants to

eulogize Flacko? Or how about Rover the Bald Eagle, also a Central Park

fixture, who died last Monday,

apparently after being struck by a vehicle on the West Side Highway.

People marveled as he hunted in Manhattan in Brooklyn, a tweet,

also quoted in the West Side rag, said,

he brought me so much joy, my heart is broken.

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