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Tompkins Square Park’s cheating hawk strikes again

Tompkins Square Park’s claw-sanova is now servicing not two, but three chicks at the same time.

The red-tailed stud named Christo made the front page of The Post in March for dipping his, um, beak in the nests of two different female hawks. His supposed mate-for-life Dora had gone to an animal hospital for an injured wing and returned a few months later to find her paramour had taken up with a flewzy named Nora.

But over the last month, the pair seemed to be patching things up, even though Christo would still make the occasional booty call at Nora’s nest.

Then two weeks ago Dora re-injured her wing, believe it or not, fighting off an unknown female hawk. And it was off to rehab again.





That’s when Christo’s wandering eye reappeared — along with yet another side chick.

The new nest-wrecker is named Amelia.

“She was there within ten minutes,” said Laura Goggin, 36, who’s been documenting the ménage à quad on her blog. “I think she had been keeping an eye on the situation since she saw Dora was in a weakened state and took her opportunity.”

The cheep slut even made herself at home in Dora’s nest near East 8th Street and Avenue B.

“Amelia started bringing twigs to it and spending time in it right away,” said Goggin. “And Christo completely accepted her and brought her a rat, which is a nice gift.”





Meanwhile, bird watchers say Christo still has the energy to visit his original feathered mistress Nora at her nest around the Jacob Riis Houses on Avenue D between East 10th and East 13th Streets.

“She never liked to be in Dora’s nest,” said Goggin.

Bird lovers — who have watched Christo and Dora rear 10 chicks and rule the roost at Tompkins for the last five years — are broken up by Christo’s fowl lust.

“We are all shocked and stunned that this is happening again,” said Goggin. “It’s been an emotional roller coaster.”

Taking up with three lady hawks is also “extremely rare,” said Bobby Horvath, a wildlife rehabilitator who’s nursing Dora back to health. “Two happens, but I’ve never heard of three.”





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