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 pedestrian ...

How do hawks and raptors hunt prey that flock, school or swarm? A new study suggests that rather than homing in on one animal, they aim toward a fixed point in space within a swarm. Researchers ...

(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 ...

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 evidence ...

New research has found that hawks hunting swarming bats steer towards a fixed point in the swarm rather than targeting any one individual. Swarms of bats, flocks of birds, or shoals of fish, may not ...

Birds continue to be amazing. Crows can use tools and hold grudges against specific people. Magpies can recognize themselves in mirrors. And now, hawks are using traffic signals to hunt down prey, ...

Many breeds of hawks live and hunt in Santa Barbara County. Cats, small dogs, pet birds (outside in their cages for the day or in aviaries), chickens, other poultry and rabbits may become a meal for ...

Owls, well adapted to hearing the exact location of prey, have something in common with an unrelated group of raptors -- harriers. A new study has found that harriers across the world are able to keep ...