A Cooper’s hawk dispatches a house sparrow after a successful hunt in a Tennessee neighborhood. (Vladimir Dinets) (CN) — A Cooper's hawk has been using crosswalk signals to orchestrate its hunting ...

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.

“We’re in full swing of Cooper’s hawk fledgling stage,” she said. “They tend to be a very, very noticeable bird in people’s backyards, in school campuses and parks.