Life is a challenge for all birds, even for bird-eating birds. There are diseases like West Nile Virus, parasites in their prey and collisions with windows and vehicles.

A low-flying red-tailed hawk, an adult male likely hunting its next meal, found itself wedged in a car’s grill, just above ...

SAN FRANCISCO-- A red-tailed hawk in Golden Gate Park suffering from a nail in the head has been seen eating small animals the past two days, a hopeful sign to rescuers trying to catch the bird ...

A newly discovered cell helps pythons digest entire skeletons—and might be present in other bone-eating predators, too. By Ellyn Lapointe Published July 9, 2025 Science Biology ...

Clever Hawk Spotted Using Pedestrian Crossing To ... “Carrion-eating birds routinely monitor or patrol busy roads to ... but particularly for a large raptor specializing in live prey,” Dinets ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Hawks are prolific predators who perch on treetops and lamp posts, scouring for prey to devour. They possess strong beaks and vise-grip talons that never lose a catch. Due to their strength and ...