City Rescues 3 Creatures From an Urban Jungle

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The collaring of a lamb that likely escaped from a Bronx slaughterhouse was one of the wildlife rescues undertaken by city agencies yesterday.

The female lamb was spotted strolling along 133rd Street in an industrial section of the South Bronx at about 11 a.m., police said.

An employee of a local moving company, Julio Rivera, said he cornered the lamb, which his colleagues nicknamed “Kimon” — after their boss — in a parking lot adjacent to the moving company. The lamb had tags attached to its neck and ears.

“She was marked for death,” Mr. Rivera said.

The lamb was rescued by police and handed over to the city’s Center for Animal Care and Control, which has already found it a home with an animal protection agency, Farm Sanctuary, a spokesman for the center, Elizabeth Keller, said. Employees there renamed the lamb “Lucky Lady,” Ms. Keller said.

In Manhattan, a falcon and a hawk were rescued in separate incidents, police said.

Park rangers at about 10 a.m. rescued a baby hawk that had been nesting on a building on West 55th Street, authorities said. A former New York City Department of Parks and Recreation commissioner, Gordon Davis, who created the department’s ranger program, found the young bird and notified authorities.

“It’s nice poetic synchronicity,” the Parks Department commissioner, Adrian Benepe, said.

About an hour later, a local business owner came to the rescue of an injured falcon on Third Avenue, authorities said.

At about 11:20 a.m., a crowd of about 20 people gathered around the fallen falcon, which likely had collided with an HSBC Bank building, the owner of Baranzelli Silk Surplus, Ward Bitter, said. Concerned about the bird’s safety, Mr. Bitter said he brought the falcon into his store, wrapped it in soft cotton fabrics, and placed it in a box.

Both the hawk and the falcon will be rehabilitated and released back into the wild, authorities said.


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