An American Barn Owl sits perched on a water tower on the Upper West Side neighborhood, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026, in New York. Yuki Iwamura/AP
Yuki Iwamura/AP
NEW YORK — Manhattan’s Upper West Side has been reveling in the company of its latest celebrities: A family of barn owls nested in a water tower atop a building near Central Park.
This is the first documented instance of barn owls nesting in Manhattan in modern history,
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