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Death from Above

Hawks make a comeback in Ann Arbor

by James Leonard

posted 2/21/2011

The pair of peregrine falcons in Burton Tower get the press, but the real raptor story in Ann Arbor is the growing number of hawks in town. In December, a Cooper's hawk was seen flapping down Alhambra, a full-sized squirrel hanging limply from its claws. Days later in the same southwest-side neighborhood, a red-tailed hawk plunged down out of a clear sky, ripped

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