She has a troupe of loyal followers, her own Facebook page, and a paparazzo who follows her everywhere, hoping to catch her in the best light.

She is not Lady Gaga or Britney Spears.

She is the red-tailed hawk of Tompkins Square, a Buteo jamaicensis, or soaring hawk, with a 50-inch wingspan and an appetite for pigeons, mice and rats.

While the more famous Pale Male — a red-tailed hawk who flew to fame when he moved onto a ledge of a swanky Fifth Avenue co-op in 2002 — has a biopic, “Pale Male: A Hawk, a City, a Love Story” in theaters now, this Tompkins Square chick boasts something just as important: downtown street cred. Call her the hipster hawk.

So it’s only fitting that Jonathan Ames, the indie writer behind the HBO hit “Bored to Death,” is a fan.

“I was thrilled to see such a proud and fierce raptor in Tompkins Square Park,” says the Brooklyn-based Ames.

“Right after seeing the hawk, I saw a young man projectile-vomit, so it was quite the full outing.”

Ames stumbled upon the hipster hawk while walking through the park on a recent Saturday afternoon. The raptor was sitting rather grandly on the low branch of a giant tree, smack-dab in the center of Tompkins Square. Like any downtown celeb, she humored the cameras’ flashbulbs and the pointing and squealing of the ever-widening circle of gawkers. Eventually she grew bored and flew to a higher perch, away from the limelight.

Malcolm Honcoop, the purported grandson of New Yorker founder Harold Ross and an avid bird-watcher, sees the hawk almost every day.

“It’s a beautiful bird,” says Honcoop, a carpenter who lives in the East Village.

“I see it on the rooftops or soaring above the park in circles.”

The hipster hawk, who is thought to be a 3-year-old female, has a Facebook page devoted to her, started by gallerist and East

Village resident Sara Jo Romero 18 months ago.

“I was coming out from a restaurant, and [the hawk] was sitting there on a light post, looking right at me,” says Romero.

“And then it swooped right over my head into Tompkins Square Park and grabbed a rat out of a bush, and I thought to myself, ‘Surely other people would be interested in this.’ ”

So far, the page has only 13 fans. But in real life, the bird has many, many more, including some of the homeless people who hang out in the park every day. They watch her come and go. “We see her all the time,” says one. “The hawk was in the projects today,” another offers. “She likes the rats by the Dumpsters near the river.”

The most devoted fan of all is probably Dennis Edge, a photographer and retired graphic designer who spends a few hours in the park each day, scanning the treetops and the nearby building ledges for the birdie. He is known to park denizens as “The Birdman,” and is arguably the most knowledgeable person in the city about the Tompkins Square hawk. (He says he can tell she’s a female by her size — female hawks are larger than males.) He photographs the hipster hawk every day and is working on a book about the various species of birds in Tompkins Square.

Although most folks think an entire family of hawks lives in the park, Edge says only the female is there consistently, and has claimed the park as her own hunting ground. He has seen her flying with two other red-tailed hawks he assumes are her mate and their chick, but her family never stays in the park for long.

While Edge speculates that the Tompkins Square hawk had a nest on Eighth Street and Fifth Avenue at one point, he believes it was destroyed by a storm this spring, and he doesn’t know where her permanent pad is now.

According to the experts, the hipster hawk may be a child or descendant of Pale Male. Pale Male had 27 offspring, and it’s entirely possible that one of his chicks moved from the tony Upper East Side to the trendy East Village.

“I think [the hawk is] most likely one of Pale Male’s children,” says Lorcan Otway, a journalist and owner of Theatre 80 St. Marks.

Parks Department urban ranger Sarah Aucoin says at last count, there were approximately 60 red-tailed hawks, or 30 nesting pairs, throughout the city, in all five boroughs. It’s unclear how many live in the East Village, but bird-watchers say probably around a dozen.

As the population of red-tailed hawks in the United States grows, the birds are expanding into urban areas. They can easily feed on the abundance of pigeons and rodents that live in NYC, says Natural History Museum ornithologist Peter Capainolo.

“As the city park land becomes healthier, they can support more prey, which then brings back a larger population of predators,” adds Aucoin.

Pale Male was one of the first hawks to move to New York City in modern times, initially landing in Central Park in the early 1990s before settling down on the ledge of the Fifth Avenue building. In 2004, the co-op’s snooty board had the nest destroyed, leading to a massive protest, with celebrity residents like Mary Tyler Moore fighting for his repatriation. One month later, the board relented and allowed Pale Male to rebuild his nest on the ledge — but he and his mate Lola have not given birth to any chicks since then.

As a result, Pale Male became a local hero, one of the most famous hawks in the world. And even if the hipster hawk isn’t one of his descendants, East Villagers are proud of her.

“The downtown hawk is a little edgier than Pale Male,” says Romero. “She’s not living in a fancy high rise. She hangs out in Tompkins Square and Stuyvesant Town and the projects. She’s just really cool.”

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