A young Cooper’s hawk in New Jersey learned to use pedestrian crossing signals, specifically their sounds, as cues to time hunting attacks, taking advantage of the longer red lights and car ...

(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 University of Tennessee researcher documented an immature Cooper's hawk using vehicle traffic and pedestrian signal patterns as concealment during hunting behavior at a suburban intersection.

Because Cooper’s hawks are migratory, he noted, this meant the juvenile hawk had figured out this hunting hack just a few weeks into its time in the new city, “and it had already figured out ...

And this hawk managed all that as a juvenile, Ng pointed out—still in the first couple of years of its life, when most Cooper’s hawks “are just not good at hunting yet.” ...

In a fascinating example of urban wildlife adaptation, a Cooper’s hawk in a US city has been observed using traffic signals as part of its hunting strategy, according to a recent study published ...

The Nevada Department of Wildlife saved the day, according to South Reno resident Fauna Tomlinson. Tomlinson and a few of her neighbors called about a young Cooper's hawk that had broken its wing ...

An immature Cooper's hawk was observed timing hunting attacks at a suburban intersection to coincide with auditory pedestrian signals that extended red lights and increased vehicle queues, ...