Red-tails in love
Subtitle: a wildlife drama in Central Park
By: Marie Winn.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Bird watching -- New York (State) -- New York.; Red-tailed hawk -- New York (State) -- New York.; Central Park (New York, N.Y.)
Description: The scene is New York's Central Park, but the rich natural history that emerges here - the loons, raccoons, woodpeckers, owls, and hundreds of visiting songbirds - will appeal to wildlife lovers everywhere. At its heart is the saga of the Fifth Avenue hawks, which begins as a love story and develops into a full-fledged mystery.

At the outset of our journey we meet the Regulars, a small band of nature lovers who devote themselves to the park and its wildlife. As they watch Pale Male, a remarkable young red-tailed hawk, woo and win his first mate, they are soon transformed into addicted hawk-watchers.

From a bench at the park's model-boat pond they observe the hawks building a nest in an astonishing spot - a high ledge of a Fifth Avenue building three floors above Mary Tyler Moore's apartment and across the street from Woody Allen's.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 290-292) and index.
Colored map of the Ramble (37-acre wilderness in the heart of the park) on endpapers.