At ten this morning a Red-tailed Hawk will be released from the area of the parking lot near the Hillside/Park Terrace entrance to Pope Park.
The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection says:
Connecticut DEP Wildlife Biologists, joined by representatives of the Hartford Police Department, Sharon Audubon Center, and Trinity College will release a young Red-tailed hawk in Pope Park. The hawk was found with a broken wing by a Connecticut resident who brought the bird to the Hartford Police Department. The Hartford Police contacted the DEP and eventually the bird was taken to the Sharon Audubon Center where it was rehabilitated to full health.
The bird has been banded by Trinity College Professor, Joan Morrison. Professor Morrison and her students have an ongoing study in Hartford aimed at determining the habitat use and reproductive ecology of urban Red-tailed Hawks.
For additional information, contact Dwayne Gardner, Office of Communications (DEP) at (860) 424-3938.
Richard
Sounds nice. But I wonder will the other two nesting hawks which just had babies like to have another hawk in their territory? Their nest has been for years in the first set of trees coming down Park St. on the North Side. I don’t know a thing about hawks so I am just asking this question.
Kerri Provost
You’re the second person to ask this today. I don’t know how territorial hawks are.