Bird-hunting hawks bring ... long-tailed raptors that prey chiefly upon birds, the larger Cooper’s hawks favoring doves and robins and the sharp-shinned hawks taking mostly sparrows and ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A young hawk in New Jersey turned rush hour traffic into its personal hunting ground. This bird cracked the code of urban traffic patterns and used them as a weapon, with ...

In response, birds—like sparrows and doves—would flock there to claim the leftover crumbs. ... so Dinets hasn’t seen any super smart hawks hunting near his home since.

A hawk in New Jersey has been seen using a clever, urban hunting strategy: taking sound cues from traffic signals to exploit cars for cover, before striking prey. The hawk first crossed paths with ...

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 ambushes sparrows and doves. The hawk only hunts on ...

The route used by the hawk to attack a flock of birds feeding in front of house #2 is shown with white arrows. Credit: Frontiers in Ethology (2025). DOI: 10.3389/fetho.2025.1539103 ...

But those hawks in particular, he noted, are one of the few species of birds of prey — like skyscraper-roosting peregrine falcons and squirrel-hunting red tailed hawks — that have adapted to ...

Many a U. S. city is plagued by the noise and dirt of starlings in winter, of sparrows the year round. To the relief of pestered inhabitants occasionally come hawks. In Hartford, Conn, last winter ...