Watch Live: NYU Hawks Welcome Baby

GREENWICH VILLAGE, NY — NYU's red-tailed hawks have welcomed a new kid to the nest, and you can watch all the parent-child bonding moments in real time.

The NYU hawk cam captures a crystal-clear view of the hawks nesting outside a window on the 12th floor of the school's Bobst Library. At least one eyas, or baby hawk, as has been spotted in the nest so far.

The happy couple started nesting outside the university president's office in 2011, according to the school. These hawks don't have official names, as NYU frowns on "anthropomorphizing" the birds of prey.

"Finally, we also find it also important to note, given the birds’ beauty and the opportunity accorded by the Hawk Cam to observe them intimately as they raise their nestlings, there may be a tendency to project human traits on these raptors, including giving them names," according to to the school. "NYU does not officially endorse anthropomorphizing the adult hawks or their eyasses and will not seek to name them."

You can watch the happy family in real-time here.

New York City is home to at least 20 known red-tailed hawk couples, most of whom have made permanent or semi-permanent nests here.

Baby birds are getting ready to hatch and joining families all throughout the city. Adele and Frank, the peregrine falcons nesting on a building in the Financial District, have laid at least four eggs, which are expected to hatch any day now. You can watch their family live here. A pigeon who has been squatting in a Brooklyn woman's Williamsburg apartment laid two eggs in the woman's pasta strainer; the eggs hatched into scrawny baby pigeons on Monday.

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Lead image via NYU hawk cam.