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NEW YORK - Incensed New York bird lovers intensified their protests on Saturday outside the ritzy Upper East Side apartment building that removed the nest of famed red-tailed hawk, Pale Male, even as meetings were set to discuss bringing back the hawk's home. Holdings signs saying "Protect Family Values, Bring Back the Nest" and "Honk for the Hawks," the crowd chanted "Bring back the nest!" and elicited raucous honks from buses, taxis and cars. It was the fourth day of protests outside the building, which on Tuesday abruptly took down the hawk's nest and metal spikes that supported it. John...

Supporters of the city's most famous homeless couple have published the names and phone numbers of their privacy-loving former landlords — and demanded that CNN report on the bird brouhaha, which features its anchor Paula Zahn. Hundreds of hawk-huggers from around the country, outraged that the board of Zahn's co-op evicted Pale Male and his paramour, Lola, from their nest on the exclusive Fifth Avenue building, declared guerrilla war. They posted the co-op owners' numbers on the Internet and sent hundreds of angry e-mails to Mayor Bloomberg and Upper East Side elected officials. The Internet posting could be have the...