On a frosty October morning, a quiet yard and missing songbirds reveal the presence of a calm, young Cooper’s hawk perched ...
So you are watching the bird feeders, and all of a sudden everything goes quiet. The birds have disappeared. What happened? Well, if it’s not your neighbor’s cat strolling through the yard, chances ...
Cooper’s hawks swoop through our suburban yard every month or so, making passes at our feeder birds. The hawk knows a good hunting opportunity when it sees one. A reader recently wrote to ask me what ...
(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 ...
Have you noticed lately a lot of high-pitched screeching in your neighborhood? Well, it could be a family of Cooper’s Hawks. Volunteer researchers say there are 44 active Cooper’s Hawks nests in the ...
Friends with bird feeders have told me that they’ve sometimes seen a hawk diving past their window toward their bird feeder. “It’s usually a Cooper’s hawk at bird feeders, especially in winter,” said ...