He was one of the only red-tailed hawks to make the Big Apple his permanent home at the time. Pale Male, the famous Manhattan ... banded and some believe it’s unusual that one of the most ...

FILE - Pale Male, a red tailed hawk, leaves his nest with a rat he just caught hanging from his beak, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2005, in New York. Pale Male, who brought a touch of the wild to swanky ...