Considered a deft flier and known for chasing prey on the wing, a Cooper’s hawk on the hunt can dart through dense tree cover at speeds of up to 50 mph. This agile, crow-sized raptor can even flip ...

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.

(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 ...

In November of 2021, Vladimir Dinets was driving his daughter to school when he first noticed a hawk using a pedestrian crosswalk. The bird—a young Cooper’s hawk, to be exact—wasn’t using the ...

Vladimir Dinets was driving his daughter to school one morning when a flash of movement caught his eye. He watched as a young Cooper’s hawk darted out of a tree, soared low to the ground along a line ...