{"id":19329,"date":"2025-01-03T21:41:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T22:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19329"},"modified":"2025-01-03T23:26:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T23:26:23","slug":"marie-winn-who-wrote-of-a-famous-central-park-hawk-dies-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19329","title":{"rendered":"Marie Winn, Who Wrote of a Famous Central Park Hawk, Dies at 88"},"content":{"rendered":"
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She chronicled the melodrama of Pale Male, a red-tailed hawk who became an avian sensation as it took up residence atop a Manhattan apartment building.<\/p>\n

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Marie Winn, the author who chronicled the avian sensation Pale Male<\/a>, a red-tailed hawk that took up residence on the overhang of an Upper East Side apartment building only to be evicted in 2004, sparking protests by birders who had been thrilled to watch him woo lovers with disemboweled rats, died on Dec. 25 in Manhattan. She was 88.<\/p>\n

Her death, at a hospital, was confirmed by her son Michael Miller.<\/p>\n

After publishing several books in the 1970s and \u201980s about the changing nature of childhood, Ms. Winn began writing a column on mother nature for The Wall Street Journal in 1989, a career turn that eventually put her at the center of an only-in-New-York-City melodrama.<\/p>\n

It began in Central Park, where Ms. Winn started bird watching in 1991, the year an unusual-looking red-tailed hawk arrived from places unknown.<\/p>\n

Instead of the dark brown features that typically mark red-tail hawks, this one had light-colored plumage. Ms. Winn named the curious fellow Pale Male. She and other bird watchers of Central Park \u2014 \u201cthe Regulars,\u201d as Ms. Winn called them \u2014 followed him everywhere.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cShortly after his arrival in Central Park,\u201d she wrote in her book \u201cRed-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park\u201d<\/a> (1998), \u201cPale Male had discovered a hunting ground that was to become his favorite: an area near the park entrance at Fifth Avenue and 79th Street \u2014 the killing corner, as the Regulars dubbed it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ms. Winn originally wrote about Pale Male in a nature column for The Wall Street Journal. Her book \u201cRed-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park,\u201d was published in 1998.<\/span>Pantheon<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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She chronicled the melodrama of Pale Male, a red-tailed hawk who became an avian sensation as it took up residence atop a Manhattan apartment building.Marie Winn, the author who chronicled the avian sensation Pale Male, a red-tailed hawk that took up residence on the overhang of an Upper East Side apartment building only to be evicted in 2004, sparking protests by birders who had been thrilled to watch him woo lovers with disemboweled rats, died on Dec. 25 in Manhattan. She was 88.Her death, at a hospital, was confirmed by her son Michael Miller.After publishing several books in the 1970s and \u201980s about the changing nature of childhood, Ms. Winn began writing a column on mother nature for The Wall Street Journal in 1989, a career turn that eventually put her at the center of an only-in-New-York-City melodrama.It began in Central Park, where Ms. Winn started bird watching in 1991, the year an unusual-looking red-tailed hawk arrived from places unknown.Instead of the dark brown features that typically mark red-tail hawks, this one had light-colored plumage. Ms. Winn named the curious fellow Pale Male. She and other bird watchers of Central Park \u2014 \u201cthe Regulars,\u201d as Ms. Winn called them \u2014 followed him everywhere.\u201cShortly after his arrival in Central Park,\u201d she wrote in her book \u201cRed-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park\u201d (1998), \u201cPale Male had discovered a hunting ground that was to become his favorite: an area near the park entrance at Fifth Avenue and 79th Street \u2014 the killing corner, as the Regulars dubbed it.\u201dMs. Winn originally wrote about Pale Male in a nature column for The Wall Street Journal. Her book \u201cRed-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park,\u201d was published in 1998.PantheonWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19331,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19332,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19329\/revisions\/19332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}