The bird had also learned this behavior at a young age, at a time when other Cooper’s hawks “are just not good at hunting yet,” says Janet Ng, a wildlife biologist with Environment and ...

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 to reach the other side of the road in West Orange, New Jersey.

The family of David McCumber, the Arizona Daily Star’s executive editor, had a surprise visitor Wednesday morning: a Cooper’s hawk that made himself at home by taking a dip in the pool at their home ...

Avondale Park is in the midst of a nice little baby bird boom! This Spring, birders, nature-lovers and photographers have ...

(CN) — A Cooper's hawk has been using crosswalk signals to orchestrate its hunting strategy, outsmarting both its prey and urban infrastructure, according to research published Friday in Frontiers in ...

In a recent paper, a researcher noted a bird’s surprising urban adaptation: A young Cooper’s hawk used a pedestrian crossing signal to help it hunt more successfully in a busy neighborhood ...

A smart Cooper’s hawk in a US city has been observed using traffic lights and pedestrian signals to ambush prey—highlighting urban wildlife intelligence, a new study finds.

A hawk in a New Jersey town has learned to use a neighborhood traffic light to hunt more effectively, a study published Thursday found. The study in Frontiers of Ethology represents further evidenc… ...

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 ...

image: Adult Cooper’s hawk dispatching a house sparrow. Image: Vladimir Dinets. view more . Credit: Vladimir Dinets. Many years ago, I got to spend some time in Ngorongoro Crater, a unique place ...