Pale Male, Red-Tailed Hawk Who Nested Above NYC’s Fifth Avenue for 30 Years, Dies at 33

Pale Male, a red tailed hawk, leaves his nest with a rat he just caught hanging from his beak in New York on Feb. 17, 2005. Julie Jacobson/AP Photo

NEW YORK—Pale Male, a red-tailed hawk who brought a touch of the wild to swanky Manhattan as he nested above Fifth Avenue for three decades, has died.

Pale Male died late Tuesday after being found ill and grounded in Central Park, wildlife rehabilitator Bobby Horvath posted on Facebook. The hawk was believed to be 33 years old.