NMSU Hawks

for those angry birds! abc-7’s jamie warren is live with details from our new mexico mobile newsroom. jamie? rick — 2 hawks live in this tree. they’ve gotten increasingly aggressive over time. in fact nmsu had its first attack of the year just last week. we caught one of birds peering through the leaves near rentfrow gym this morning. over the past three years they’ve attacked nearly a dozen students. many suffered head injuries. one even required 8 stitches. officials say the hawks are acting to protect their young. they’re most aggressive when they want to retrieve a fledgling that’s been unable to make its way back to the nest. but there’s not much the university can do. the hawks are protected under the migratory bird treaty act, which makes it illegal to disturb an active nest. wildlife officials have tried thinning branches twice already to discourage them. they’ve also put up these faces attempting to scare them: carol campbell: “they’ve nested here for a number of years and if they have these trees removed then maybe they’ll go to that tree or maybe they’ll go to the tree over there and so it’s a bit of a concern.” the vice president of nmsu’s facilities and services department tells me if the aggression continues, the university can apply for a permit to relocate the hawks. he very last step in that permit is lethal action, but he says nmsu would never consider that. funeral arrangements are underway for a border patrol agent killed in a crash near fort