Get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox so you never miss a thing Viewed through a telescope from the eleventh floor of a car park, he was stunningly beautiful.
Blue grey upper parts, dark blue wings, a blackish crown, and finely spotted breast. A heavily black 'moustache' contrasts with a white face. READ MORE: Mum who was born in a bathroom at home gives birth on her kitchen floor 25 years later An Arabian desert seemed an appropriate habitat for such an exotic, powerful bird of prey.
It was actually perched, regally, on a ledge of the Holiday Inn with a spectacular view of Manchester United's Old Trafford just behind it.
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