(from the dust jacket) 
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 FifthAvenue 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 WoodyA1len'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. 

MARIE WINN writes a column on nature and birdwatching for the Wall Street Journal. Among her twelve previous books are The Plug-In Drug: Television, Children & the Family, and Children Without Childhood. Married to the film maker and palindromist Allan Miller, she spends part of every day in Central Park. 

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