A necropsy conducted by the Bronx Zoo found that life-threatening levels of rat poison and a severe pigeon virus contributed to Flaco’s death last month.

Flaco update this morning. Cities are full of hazards for birds of prey. It was nice to think of Flaco being free and living his best life, but he would have been safer in the zoo. I still can’t say that seems like the better option. The enclosures for owls always seem so small in zoos.

  • WraithGear@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I got the impression that because we poison rats, and owls ate the rats, that we indirectly poisoned Flaco. We need to control rodents, but i would rather not use poison for this reason. A bit more of a direct changeable thing then the city being inherently poisonous