In a nutshell A young Cooper’s hawk in New Jersey learned to use pedestrian crossing signals, specifically their sounds, as ...

A hawk in a New Jersey town has learned to use a neighborhood street light to hunt more effectively, a new study has found. The study published on Thursday in Fronters of Ethology ...

A recent study documents a young Cooper’s hawk learning to use pedestrian crossing signals and idling traffic as cover for ambush hunting.

The hawk only hunts on weekdays. It avoids weekends due to less traffic. The hawk's clever hunting strategy shows its intelligence. It thrives in an urban environment. Image: National Geographic ...

Instead of hunting pets, for example, many birds of prey are far more likely to hunt pests like rats—maybe even more effectively than a pet cat. Being meat eaters, hawks can and sometimes do ...

It's intriguing to watch certain kinds of hawks hunting. And each type has its own way of capturing prey. Some work at it and others use special techniques. Clyde McMillan-Gamber is a naturalist ...

New research has found that hawks hunting swarming bats steer towards a fixed point in the swarm rather than targeting any one individual. Swarms of bats, flocks of birds, or shoals of fish ...

HONESDALE, Penn., Oct. 18.--A few days ago the writer and a friend were hunting grouse, or pheasants, as this prince of game birds is called more generally, on the hills, four miles back of this ...

Then one morning brought a steady succession of them to our birdbath – beginning with a streaky, first-year sharp-shinned hawk ... close cousins share similar hunting strategies, typically ...