Cooper’s Hawks are smaller birds compared to the common Red-Tailed Hawk often seen in Arizona. Adults have dark gray outer feathers with brown and white feathers covering their chests.

The bird had also learned this behavior at a young age, at a time when other Cooper’s hawks “are just not good at hunting yet,” says Janet Ng, a wildlife biologist with Environment and ...

A hawk missing from a California zoo showed up 15 months later in a backyard just 25 miles from where he was lost.