Researchers don’t often turn to the general public for help with scientific studies. However, for scientists seeking to ...

(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 ...

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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, ...

Red-tailed Hawks are one of the most common and widespread raptors of North America, but they are also beautiful and fierce birds. Bridgette, one of the Red-tailed Hawk ambassadors at Audubon ...

A hawk in New Jersey learned to navigate the signals at an intersection in order to ambush its prey. Zoologist Vladimir Dinets with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who lived nearby, observed a ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In times of hardship, a black-collared hawk will resort to eating rodents or even water bugs. Fortunately, he’s spotted fish in the river – just ...

Anyone who keeps a bird feeder has likely had the same uneasy thought after seeing a sudden blur of wings in the yard: What ...