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Stork pays visit to high-rise hawks
Pale Male and Lola start new family in rebuilt roost
Pale Male, right, looks on as his mate Lola lands on their 12th floor nest while their offspring, center, awaits the arrival of his mother on the ledge of a New York townhouse. The red-tailed hawks have started another brood.
The Associated Press
Updated: 4:53 p.m. ET March 15, 2005NEW YORK - New York's high-rise hawks are expecting an addition to the family.
Pale Male and his mate, Lola, who live on the ledge of a Fifth Avenue apartment building overlooking Central Park, have at least one egg in their nest, according to the Pale Male.com Web site run by Lincoln Karim, a video engineer with Associated Press Television News who devotes most of his spare time to monitoring the birds.
In December, the board of the co-op apartment building, whose tenants include actress Mary Tyler Moore and CNN anchor Paula Zahn, removed the hawks' huge nest on a 12th-story ledge, calling it a hazard.
The board later bowed to public outrage and pressure from the city and environmentalists, and restored a row of anti-pigeon spikes that the hawks had used to anchor their nest. Pale Male and Lola immediately rebuilt their nest.
The male hawk has sired 23 chicks with four mates since he first set up housekeeping at 927 Fifth Ave. in 1993.
Volunteers use the Web site to record every detail of the hawks' lives.
"Lola appears to be turning the eggs every half hour or so. Pale Male had two sittings today between noon and sunset," said an entry posted Sunday.
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