(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 ...

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 ...

As you watch the visitors to your winter bird feeder, all the small birds that regularly feed there are suddenly gone. There's no movement in the area, all is still. Did a predator come in and consume ...

Vladimir Dinets was driving his daughter to school one morning when a flash of movement caught his eye. He watched as a young Cooper’s hawk darted out of a tree, soared low to the ground along a line ...

Birds continue to be amazing. Crows can use tools and hold grudges against specific people. Magpies can recognize themselves in mirrors. And now, hawks are using traffic signals to hunt down prey, ...

When sighting one or more of these swift and agile raptors in our yard became a near-daily event last week, I began to contemplate penning this month’s column about them. Then one morning brought a ...