In a nutshell A young Cooper’s hawk in New Jersey learned to use pedestrian crossing signals, specifically their sounds, as cues to time hunting attacks, taking advantage of the longer red ...

On one occasion, however, he did see the hawk fly away with a sparrow gripped in its talons, and on another, he saw the hawk eating a mourning dove on the ground.

Carrion-eating birds, for example, patrol highways for roadkill, some passerine species gather dead insects from cars, and Eurasian sparrowhawks (A. nisus) have been observed chasing prey into ...

May 29, 2025 07:00:00 It turns out that the hawk was using road traffic lights to hunt. By . Peter Miller Vladimir Dinets, an animal behaviorist at the University of Tennessee, reported that he ...

Tony Davis Apr 11, 2020 Apr 11, 2020 Updated Jul 31, 2024 The gray hawk is a prime symbol of Southern Arizona’s lush riparian areas, a bird described by Cornell Lab of Ornithology as “an ...

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A young Cooper’s hawk in New Jersey learned to use pedestrian crossing signals, specifically their sounds, as cues to time hunting attacks, taking advantage of the longer red lights and car queues to ...

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A hawk in New Jersey has been seen using a clever, urban hunting strategy: taking sound cues from traffic signals to exploit cars for cover, before striking prey. The hawk first crossed paths with ...