Flaco, an owl who became a New York City icon after he flew the coop at the Central Park Zoo last year, has died.

We are saddened to report that Flaco, the Eurasian eagle owl discovered missing from the Central Park Zoo after his exhibit was vandalized just over a year ago, is dead after an apparent collision with a building on West 89th Street in Manhattan, the Wildlife Conservation Society, a nonprofit that manages the zoo, said in a press release Friday .