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I eye the tree through my spotting scope. Due to the dense foliage, discerning if a raptor nest is in the cottonwood tree is ...
Conservationists in Scotland successfully fed predators—making them so fat and happy that they no longer bothered killing rare birds.
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Participants watch nests of Great Horned Owls, Red-tailed and Cooper’s hawks, falcons and other majestic, powerful top ...
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 ...
The Cooper’s hawk, barely out of its juvenile phase, didn’t just learn to hide behind parked cars. It figured out how to read traffic patterns and use them to its advantage.
A smart Cooper’s hawk in a US city has been observed using traffic lights and pedestrian signals to ambush prey—highlighting urban wildlife intelligence, a new study finds.
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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 ...