Fearless and Well-Fed, New York City's Red-Tailed Hawks Are Flourishing

The number of known Red-tailed Hawk nests in Manhattan has more than doubled in the past six years. The birds usually stick to trees, but will sometimes lay claim to A/C units, fire escapes, and balconies.
"On a mellow evening this past June, a very unexpected guest was entertaining Mateo Suarez while he grilled chicken on his balcony in Flatbush, Brooklyn. His visitor didn’t say anything—it just stared at Suarez with unblinking, yellow eyes and gripped the rail with its sharp talons. The stranger was a Red-tailed Hawk, and it hung out with Suarez as he cooked for the better part of an hour. ... A Brooklyn balcony is an unexpected place for a hawk to turn up—but it's far from the weirdest encounter New Yorkers have had with the birds. In the past few years, the number of close encounters with the birds of prey in New York City seems to have spiked. There was the hawk that got stuck in the window on the Upper East Side, and then the dazed individual sitting on a Midtown street during rush hour. ..."
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Audubon: Pale Male Is a Legend—But Is He Still Alive?
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Pale Male in Central Park circa 2011. Or was it?