UPDATE: Maria the Goose Moves to the LA Zoo

The adventures of  Maria the Goose and Echo Park resident Dominic Ehrler made national headlines.

Most recently, the two were featured on CBS nightly news Monday night.

Locals had long wondered what would happen to Maria when the Echo Park Lake was drained later this year as part of a two-year park restoration.

Maria's rise to fame heightened the issue, especially when she was found far from her enclosure wandering Sunset Boulevard not long ago.

Now Maria has found another home—at the Los Angeles Zoo.  She was moved there on Friday, with Ehrler by her side.

If all goes as planned, she’ll stay there until Echo Park's two-year restoration is over.  Then she'll come back.

You can’t go see Maria yet, though. She’s now in quarantine, which usually lasts 30 days.  Whether Maria’s status as a domestic animal will shorten that remains to be seen.

But according to  Jenny Burman's Chicken Corner blog, Ehrler has already paid a visit to see her and will be visiting again.

Los Angeles City Council president and Echo Park representative Eric Garcetti helped arrange the move.

Meantime,  the Echo Park Animal Alliance is fundraising for money to help relocate Echo Park Lake’s other domestic geese, turtles and nonmigratory birds.