"It's with a heavy heart we share that a barred owl, a beloved Central Park resident, passed away early this morning," it said on Twitter. "The barred owl's presence in Central Park brought so ...

The little owl known as Yota was rescued from Squamish Toyota on Dec. 31 after he flew into their window giving himself serious brain trauma.

The visitor was an owl, a barred owl, specifically ... Then he took the owl outside and watched it soar away, into the dark of night, not unlike Santa’s sleigh.