Cooper’s Hawks are an elusive bird species and their nests are often hidden. If a baby hawk appears alone on the ground, it's possible its parents are watching nearby and the bird is safe.

The family of David McCumber, the Arizona Daily Star’s executive editor, had a surprise visitor Wednesday morning: a Cooper’s hawk that made himself at home by taking a dip in the pool at ...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology found that 25% of Cooper’s hawk skeletons had healed-over fractures of their chest bones, breaks caused by pursuing prey in thick forests and running into branches ...

Cooper's hawks are skilled hunters that feast on small and medium-sized birds. Pixabay. Vladimir Dinets was driving his daughter to school one morning when a flash of movement caught his eye.

Another Cooper’s hawk has been killed illegally in the Tucson area — the second one in the past month — and state wildlife officials are offering a $500 reward for information leading to an ...

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 ...

The bird—a young Cooper’s hawk, to be exact—wasn’t using the crosswalk, in the sense of treading on the painted white stripes to reach the other side of the road in West Orange, New Jersey.

The same day Edward the hawk was brought in, the facility was assisting Worcester police and animal control with a Cooper’s hawk. That bird was found on a heater after being unintentionally ...

The bird had also learned this behavior at a young age, at a time when other Cooper’s hawks “are just not good at hunting yet,” says Janet Ng, a wildlife biologist with Environment and ...