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New Yorkers may not all agree on which urban critter is the more fitting symbol for their city — the resilient rat, the nuke-proof cockroach or the scrappy pigeon — but the latter may soon have an ...

Please check your inbox for your confirmation. A red-winged blackbird swooped down and pecked Andrea Whetsell in Lincoln Park Zoo last summer. So perhaps her bird radar is a little twitchier than most ...