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.

State game officials is receiving calls about Tucsonans being "attacked" by Cooper's hawks, but they explain the birds aren't really attacking.

The study area. The numbers are house numbers mentioned in the text. The route used by the hawk to attack a flock of birds feeding in front of house #2 is shown with white arrows.

In November of 2021, Vladimir Dinets was driving his daughter to school when he first noticed a hawk using a pedestrian crosswalk. The bird—a young Cooper’s hawk, to be exact—wasn’t using the ...

(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 ...

Last Thursday, two young Cooper’s Hawks were found wandering in the plaza after apparently falling from their nest. It is ...

Red-shouldered hawks, along with other raptors including red-tailed hawks, Cooper's hawks and peregrine falcons, are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, making it illegal to ...

Cooper's hawks are skilled hunters that feast on small and medium-sized birds. Pixabay. Vladimir Dinets was driving his daughter to school one morning when a flash of movement caught his eye.