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How to Identify a Cooper’s Hawk

Fast, focused and fierce, the Cooper's hawk is built for the chase. Learn what a Cooper's hawk looks like and sounds like and ...
(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 ...
"What kind of hawk is this that's eating my birds?" That's a recent question from a reader. And it's not uncommon. Sometimes readers attach phone picturs of the predatory birds. These hawks are ...
PROVIDENCE – If you’re into birds and you’ve heard about a new effort to rename species now named after historical figures, the good news is that you’ll have to learn new names for only two birds that ...
Yes, a number of hawks hunt and eat smaller birds, and the sight of them strikes terror in the hearts of our backyard birds. If you've ever watched a crowd of ...
You know it’s hot out when even the hawks are taking bird baths in backyard pools. The family of David McCumber, the Arizona Daily Star’s executive editor, had a surprise visitor Wednesday morning: a ...
Looking at our backyard bird feeding station on a sunny Saturday afternoon, there was not a bird in sight. What’s going on? It didn’t take me long to spot the issue. A sharp-shinned hawk was perched ...