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Smithsonian Magazine on MSN4d
A Young Cooper’s Hawk Learned to Use a Crosswalk Signal to Launch Surprise Attacks on Other Birds
Researcher Vladimir Dinets watched the bird repeatedly sneak behind a row of cars to ambush its unsuspecting prey ...
Study Finds on MSN3d
Modern Hunter: This Young Hawk Learned To Use Traffic Lights To Find Prey
In a nutshell A young Cooper’s hawk in New Jersey learned to use pedestrian crossing signals, specifically their sounds, as ...
The Pedestrians Who Abetted a Hawk’s Deadly Attack
Vladimir Dinets was driving his daughter to school when he first noticed a hawk using a pedestrian crosswalk.The bird—a young ...
Courthouse News Service5d
Cooper’s hawk waits for red light, outsmarts urban prey
A Cooper's hawk in Tennessee learned to use pedestrian crossing signals and stopped traffic as a hunting cover.
EurekAlert!4d
Street smarts: how a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully
Dr Vladimir Dinets, a research assistant professor at the University of Tennessee, is a zoologist who studies animal behavior ...
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How a hawk learned to use traffic lights to hunt in the city
According to Dinets, goshawks seem to have adopted the same technique after observing them. In South America, several vulture ...
This Hawk Figured Out Traffic Signals to Ambush Its Prey
Birds continue to be amazing. Crows can use tools and hold grudges against specific people. Magpies can recognize themselves ...
IFLScience on MSN4d
Clever Hawk Spotted Using Pedestrian Crossing To Catch Prey In New Jersey
The Cooper’s hawk Dinets spotted on his commute was, in that sense at least, not unusual. But it was the particular technique ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN5d
Red light, green light, strike: City hawk times its kill with traffic signal beeps
A recent study documents a young Cooper’s hawk learning to use pedestrian crossing signals and idling traffic as cover for ambush hunting.
Seguin Gazette12hOpinion
Finch: Bird feeder could produce meal for hawk
Q. Why would a Cooper’s hawk be hunting on the ground around a bird feeder? Would she expect to find a sparrow or small ...
Urban hawks may use streetlights to ambush prey, study finds
A hawk in a New Jersey town has learned to use a neighborhood street light to hunt more effectively, a new study has found. The study published on Thursday in Fronters of Ethology ...
The Atlantic5d
The Pedestrians Who Abetted a Hawk’s Deadly Attack
Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. In November of 2021, Vladimir Dinets was driving his daughter to school when he first ...