Research found that Cooper’s Hawks in New Jersey adapted to the city by using cues from traffic signals and manipulating ...

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

A young Cooper’s hawk used traffic signals and parked cars to outwit its prey, revealing surprising intelligence in urban ...

Birds continue to be amazing. Crows can use tools and hold grudges against specific people. Magpies can recognize themselves ...

Dr Vladimir Dinets, a zoologist who studies animal behavior, ecology, and conservation, is the author of a recently published ...

Researcher Vladimir Dinets watched the bird repeatedly sneak behind a row of cars to ambush its unsuspecting prey ...

A hawk in New Jersey has adapted to city life. It uses traffic signals to hunt birds. The hawk waits for the pedestrian ...

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 ...

A Cooper's hawk in Tennessee learned to use pedestrian crossing signals and stopped traffic as a hunting cover.

According to Dinets, goshawks seem to have adopted the same technique after observing them. In South America, several vulture ...

Q. Why would a Cooper’s hawk be hunting on the ground around a bird feeder? Would she expect to find a sparrow or small ...