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If you have an oriole feeder up in your yard, you know many baby orioles have fledged and are out and about, chasing their ...
Berly McCoy and Regina Barber of Short Wave talk about a hawk's clever hunting strategy, contacts that allow wearers to see infrared light, and how immunity varies during the day.
A young Cooper’s hawk used traffic signals and parked cars to outwit its prey, revealing surprising intelligence in urban wildlife.
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.
Trending News: A hawk in New Jersey has adapted to city life. It uses traffic signals to hunt birds. The hawk waits for the pedestrian crossing sound. It then ambush ...
In a nutshell 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 ...
A young Cooper’s hawk in New Jersey learned to use pedestrian crossing signals, specifically their sounds, as cues to time hunting attacks.
A Coopers' hawk in New Jersey learned to use a traffic light and its accompanying tone for blind pedestrians to ambush prey, a study found.
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 ...
Cooper's hawk is on a rather short list of bird of prey species that have successfully adapted to life in cities. A city is a difficult and very dangerous habitat for any bird, but particularly for a ...
A recent study documents a young Cooper’s hawk learning to use pedestrian crossing signals and idling traffic as cover for ambush hunting.
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.” ...