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THE BOOK OF FLACO: The World's Most Famous Bird
Blair Publishing * February 2025 * 228 pages
THE BOOK OF FLACO is a parable of freedom, wildness, and our urban ecosystems and has made a complete sweep of trade reviews!
This is the story of Flaco, the beautiful Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped from Central Park Zoo and captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of followers around the world.
PEOPLE MAGAZINE: “For Flaco fans. Birdwatchers, and those interested in the threats facing our environment, THE BOOK OF FLACO promises to be a hoot.”
People featured the jacket, photos, a description, and words from Gessner. Huge momentum for national media and sales:
https://people.com/new-book-on-flaco-the-eurasian-eagle-owl-exclusive-8670432
KIRKUS: eatured the book as their Non-fiction News & Features lead story and also on their home page:
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/book-about-flaco-the-owl-coming-in-2025/
This is a fable about freedom and wildness. Flaco has been dubbed “the world’s most famous bird.” From the night in February of 2023 when vandals cut a hole in his cage until his death a year later in a courtyard on the Upper West Side, his is a story full of adventure and unexpected turns.
Nature writer David Gessner chronicles the year-long odyssey of Flaco—the owl who captured the imaginations of New Yorkers and the legions of people around the world who followed his story. Though he’d spent his life in a cage, Flaco learned street smarts, surviving the mean streets by eating rats. He was an immigrant coming from elsewhere to make it in the big city. Central Park, an island of green in the urban sea of New York CIty, was his new home territory.
Flaco’s wild adventure unfolded during a time when so many of us everywhere were just getting outside and seeing the world after the extended house arrest of COVID. And his end—with a grim necropsy revealing Flaco had suffered a viral infection from eating pigeons and had multiple rodenticides in his system—serves as a Rachel Carson-esque warning about the harm we do to our urban birds.
David Gessner is the author of thirteen books that blend a love of nature, humor, memoir, and environmentalism, including the New York Times bestselling, All the Wild That Remains. Gessner is a professor at UNCW, where he also founded the literary magazine, Ecotone. His own magazine publications include pieces in the New York Times Magazine, Outside, Orion, and many other magazines. In 2017 he hosted the National Geographic Explorer show, The Call of the Wild.
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