# Red-tailed hawks given boot from Manhattan nesting ground-WTF!?

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 9, 2004, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-tailed-hawks-given-boot-from-manhattan-nesting-ground-wtf/278875 "2004-12-09T04:01:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-tailed-hawks-given-boot-from-manhattan-nesting-ground-wtf/278875/41 "2004-12-10T17:10:34Z")

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> [@Homebrew](#):
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> Or if you’re an exhibitionist, you could leave your blinds open and dance naked for the birdwatchers. 'Course that might just be me.

\*pulls up a park bench"

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**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-tailed-hawks-given-boot-from-manhattan-nesting-ground-wtf/278875/42 "2004-12-17T20:31:34Z")

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Good news! The building powers-that-be changed their minds and are going to replace the nest!

[Joy and Raptor On Fifth Avenue: Manhattan Co-op Reverses Decision to Evict Hawks](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6439-2004Dec16.html)

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> By Monday, the co-op board had begun to retreat. The spikes would be replaced, and pending approval from the city’s preservation pooh-bahs a box big enough for a hawk nest would be installed right where Pale Male once lived.  
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> Pale Male and his current mate, Lola, have been spotted in parts of Central Park and Karim, for one, has no doubt the love birds will return to the lair as soon as 927 Fifth Ave. is again ready for them. In the span of a couple of weeks, if all goes as planned, it’ll be as though none of this ever happened.

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