A barred owl whose majestic presence and and unusually extroverted demeanour made her a celebrity in New York’s Central Park has been killed in a collision with a park maintenance vehicle.
The owl was most likely flying across Central Park’s West Drive to catch prey, according to the conservancy, and was not in the line of sight of the vehicle driver, who was moving at or below 15mph (24 km/h), the conservancy said.
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