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A low-flying red-tailed hawk, an adult male likely hunting its next meal, found itself wedged in a car’s grill, just above ...
An unsung environmental success story has unfolded in Florida. With hurricane season is upon us, a restored river wetland ...
If you have an oriole feeder up in your yard, you know many baby orioles have fledged and are out and about, chasing their ...
"Magnificent." Homeowner astounded after predator makes catch in backyard: 'Grim but awesome' first appeared on The Cool Down ...
It was 3 in the morning when Lorenzo Mora, 41, was getting ready to go bird-watching. This wasn’t just any birding trip: he’d ...
Over 18 separate dawn stakeouts, he pieced together a remarkable strategy. A young Cooper’s hawk had learned to read the rhythms of pedestrian crosswalk signals and the queues of idling vehicles, ...
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.
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.
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 ...
“The bird also had to have a good mental map of the place, because when the car queue reached its tree, the raptor could no longer see the place where its prey was and had to get there by memory,” ...
A hawk in a New Jersey town has learned to use a neighborhood traffic light to hunt more effectively, a study published Thursday found. The study in Frontiers of Ethology represents further evidenc… ...
It turned out that the house targeted by the hawk's attacks was inhabited by a nice big family that liked to eat dinner in the front yard. Next morning their breadcrumbs and other leftovers attracted ...