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Red-Tails in Love : A Wildlife Drama in Central Park
RedTails in Love A Wildlife Drama in Central Park Author:Marie Winn Marie Winn is our guide into a secret world, a true wilderness in the heart of a city. 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,... more » 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.
The drama of the Fifth Avenue hawks -- hunting, courting, mating, and striving against great odds to raise a family in their unprecedented nest site -- is alternately hilarious and heartbreaking. Red-Tails in Love will delight and inspire readers for years to come.« less