Madison Square Park Hawk is reported dead
Jan.02, 2013 in
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In some very sad news, word is in that the Madison Square Park red-tailed Hawk was found dead in the park. And multiple (yet unsubstantiated) sources have reported that the cause of death was from eating a poisoned rat.
The hawk was a favorite among locals and tourists in Madison Square Park, and fed on the pigeons and squirrels (and apparently rats) native to the area.
More to come as we get it.
(Photo: The hawk this summer perched on the art installation.
I have been photographing the Raptor’s in MSQP for some months.
If the report is that the deceased hawk is a juvenile I feel
that it is not the same hawk that we usually witness in the
park which already has a Red tail ,a sign of maturity.
That being said just before Christmas day I photographed that
mature Red Tail hawk showing signs if disorientation and limping and sent the photo’s to Dr. Robert DeCandido a bird
expert who then said the mature Hawk might have an unbalance
issue likely eating a dead rat that itself had ingested
poison, Looking forward to Ward Stone’s autopsy report to solve this mystery between our oft seen juvenile and mature
raptor’s.