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New York City’s Falcons Are Booming

Suhail Ahmed

  On certain spring mornings, the sound that cuts through traffic on the FDR isn’t a horn but the sharp cry of a peregrine falcon. Once missing from much of the Eastern United States, these aerial specialists are now thriving above Manhattan’s glass canyons and along the city’s steel-laced bridges. Their comeback feels both improbable ...