In a nutshell A young Cooper’s hawk in New Jersey learned to use pedestrian crossing signals, specifically their sounds, as ...

Motor vehicles are among the top five causes of bird death in the United States, killing about 200 million birds in ...

The bird—a young Cooper’s hawk, to be exact—wasn’t using the crosswalk, in the sense of treading on the painted white stripes ...

Birds continue to be amazing. Crows can use tools and hold grudges against specific people. Magpies can recognize themselves ...

Dr Vladimir Dinets, a zoologist who studies animal behavior, ecology, and conservation, is the author of a recently published ...

A young Cooper’s hawk used traffic signals and parked cars to outwit its prey, revealing surprising intelligence in urban ...

Researcher Vladimir Dinets watched the bird repeatedly sneak behind a row of cars to ambush its unsuspecting prey ...

Berly McCoy and Regina Barber of Short Wave talk about a hawk's clever hunting strategy, contacts that allow wearers to see ...

A hawk in New Jersey has adapted to city life. It uses traffic signals to hunt birds. The hawk waits for the pedestrian ...

One winter morning in suburban New Jersey, Vladimir Dinets stopped at a red light — and saw something he couldn’t believe.

Berly McCoy and Regina Barber of Short Wave talk about a hawk's clever hunting strategy ... I've read all about this young Cooper's hawk in New Jersey. Set the scene for us.

SHAPIRO: Wow. OK, for the third story, you've got this hawk that I'm personally obsessed with. I've read all about this young Cooper's hawk in New Jersey. Set the scene for us. MCCOY: Right.