The Eurasian eagle-owl is a species of eagle-owl, a type of bird that resides much over Eurasia. It is often just called the eagle-owl in Europe and Asia.
Bubo bubo 3
Note the orange eyes and vertical stripes on the chest
Eurasian eagle-owl in captivity
The wings have a wide spread
Flaco was a male Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped his long-time enclosure at Central Park Zoo in New York City after someone cut the protective netting in February 2023. Flaco subsequently resided in an
Eurasian eagle-owl
…Otis tarda), spur-thighed tortoise (Testudo graeca), Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), European eel (Anguilla anguilla) and lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus). Flaco, a Eurasian eagle-owl that escaped from the Central Park Zoo in New York City in 2023 Eurasian eagle owl and other owl pictures…
Flaco roosting in Central Park
Moments before Flaco briefly got a talon stuck in a rat-baited bal-chatri trap zoo staff had used to try to recapture the owl, February 2023
Flaco peering into playwright Nan Knighton's window in December 2023
A crowd of photographers, birders, and other parkgoers watching Flaco in February 2023