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Pale Male

Buteo jamaicensis

Photo by Tom15
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Field Notes

Notes:

Pale Male is probably the most famous Red-tailed Hawk in the world. He has a whole Wikipedia page (referenced).
His nest is on a Fifth Avenue building right next to Central Park. The picture isn't great, since I didn't want to walk around Central Park with my big camera. A point and shoot was much easier to carry around the city and probably a lot safer.

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Comments (2)
Tom15
When we were in Central Park, Pale Male was what we wanted to see the most. After finding the nest near the top of a building, the female flew in than a minute later Pale Male flew in too. He moved around in the trees in the park, not paying much attention to the hundreds of people walking past him.

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WILD Cities: Urban Biodiversity
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Birds of the World
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Raptors of North America
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Birds - Northeast US
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PublishedApril 27, 2014

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