Red-Tails in Love: Pale Male's Story--A True Wildlife Drama in Central Park (Vintage Departures) - Softcover

Winn, Marie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679758461 ISBN 13: 9780679758464

Publisher: Vintage, 1999

Synopsis

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, 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.

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Review:

"Enchanting." --The New York Review of Books

"An amazing drama, as good as any soap opera and all the more remarkable since it is a true wildlife story." -- Birding

"A sublime lesson in adaptability, hope, and wild-bred devotion. It'll make you look to the skies, no matter where you live." --Carl Hiaasen, Mirabella

"Astonishing. . . . If you don't believe that the Central Park of Stuart Little has always existed, read this book and open your eyes." --Mary Tyler Moore

"Engaging . . . Dr. Zhivago with feathers. . . . That such simple pleasures can be savored today, in the heart of frantic New York City, is a bit of a miracle." --The Boston Globe

"'Give your heart to the hawks, ' the poet Robinson Jeffers wrote. Marie Winn certainly has, and so will readers of this delightful book." --The New York Times Book Review

About the Author:

Marie Winn wrote a column on nature and birdwatching for the Wall Street Journal for twelve years. Among her previous books are The Plug-In Drug: Television, Children & the Family (twenty-fifth anniversary edition 2003), and Children Without Childhood. Married to the filmmaker and palindromist Allan Miller, she spends part of every day in Central Park.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0679758461
• ISBN 13: 9780679758464
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352