I haven’t seen any Cooper’s hawks around here ever since. Cooper’s hawk is on a rather short list of bird of prey species that have successfully adapted to life in cities.

A Cooper’s hawk dispatches a house sparrow after a successful hunt in a Tennessee neighborhood. (Vladimir Dinets) (CN) — A Cooper's hawk has been using crosswalk signals to orchestrate its hunting ...

Cooper’s Hawk Winery and Restaurant, an upscale chain with more than 60 locations nationally, has opened its first Georgia outlet in Alpharetta.

Extremely common in North America, the red-tailed hawk is often sighted soaring in circles overhead. As Wilson notes, smaller birds will attack and annoy red-tails, representing outside forces trying ...

As their name suggests, sharp-shinned hawks have very slender legs and wings for navigating dense forests. They remind us to look beyond limiting beliefs and recognize the gifts in ourselves and ...

The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday in favor of Rolling Meadows in its dispute with Arlington Heights over improperly allocated sales tax revenue from Cooper’s Hawk Winery and Restaurant ...

Cooper’s hawks are often confused with their smaller look-alike cousin, the sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus).

Let me say this right up front: When identifying Cooper’s and Sharp-shinned Hawks, it’s okay to not have a definitive answer. These two species look almost exactly alike and have very similar habits.

The subtle art of distinguishing Cooper’s and sharp-shinned hawks is beyond the scope of this column, but some broadly shared characteristics of the two local Accipiter hawks can be mentioned here.

Cedar Grove is a perfect site for sharp-shinned hawk research. Over the last 75 years, sharpies have been the most banded species at the facility.