Kennedy and the red-tailed hawks were the subject of an award-winning documentary, Pale Male and a book, Red-Tales in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park by Marie Winn.

NPR: The Birdman of Central Park

Among the dead were protected creatures such as a red-crowned crane, four stump-tailed macaques and a brown bear.

FORBES: Tigercide

There, zoologists were able to compare the creature with its closest relative, the forest-dwelling brown-tailed vontsira, and finally confirm its identity.

BBC: Earth News - New carnivorous mammal species found in Madagascar

Stanley the white-tailed eagle flew off during a show in September and despite a number of sightings handlers were unable to catch him.

BBC: Eagle search called off by Warwick Castle