(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 ...

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 ...

So you are watching the bird feeders, and all of a sudden everything goes quiet. The birds have disappeared. What happened? Well, if it’s not your neighbor’s cat strolling through the yard, chances ...

Hunters who spend a lot of time afield in the fall are likely to observe all sorts of amazing animal behavior, none more awe-inspiring than the aerial skills of the Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii).

Cooper’s hawks swoop through our suburban yard every month or so, making passes at our feeder birds. The hawk knows a good hunting opportunity when it sees one. A reader recently wrote to ask me what ...

Learn what a Cooper's hawk looks like and sounds like, where to find one. Plus find out where this raptor prefers to nest.

DEAR JOAN: The last week or so, a hawk has been hunting the squirrels in our backyard in Walnut Creek. The hawk stalks them, flushes them out of the bushes and attacks from low altitude, so far with ...

James “Gomie” Gomez photographed this Cooper’s hawk. Provided Share As usual, notes come from all over with the help of readers. WILD OF THE WEEK James “Gomie” Gomez photographed this Cooper’s hawk ...

Friends with bird feeders have told me that they’ve sometimes seen a hawk diving past their window toward their bird feeder. “It’s usually a Cooper’s hawk at bird feeders, especially in winter,” said ...

DEAR JOAN: For the past three weeks a young Cooper’s hawk has frequented our backyard. We can tell when he is around because of his demands to be fed by mom. We’ve only seen mom once, when she swooped ...

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