Pale Male: Tributes pour in for celebrity red-tailed hawk

Tributes have poured in this week as New Yorkers say goodbye to Pale Male, a red-tailed hawk with a claim to being the city's original celebrity bird.

First arriving in Central Park in the early 1990s, the bird became well-known when he nested above a 12th floor window of the apartment building at 927 Fifth Avenue in 1993. A furious outcry ensued, with protesters standing vigil for days and sitcom star Mary Tyler Moore, a long-term tenant, slamming the move on national television as "pointless and heartless". The nest was rebuilt.Much has been written since then about the iconic hawk, as well as the procession of partners he outlived, and offspring so numerous one naturalist described it to the New York Times as "Shakespearean levels of progeny".

"Hopefully it was simply age related issues and it was just his time after an amazing unmatchable lifespan," he said. But questions have been raised over whether the bird Mr Horvath cared for was in fact Pale Male, though his nest remains at 927 Fifth Avenue.

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