Adult Cooper’s hawk dispatching a house sparrow. Image: Vladimir Dinets. Dr Vladimir Dinets, a research assistant professor at the University of Tennessee, is a zoologist who studies animal behavior, ...

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.

In a recent study, Dr. Vladimir Dinets documents a surprising case of behavioral innovation: a young Cooper’s hawk learning to use pedestrian crossing signals and idling traffic as cover for ...

He watched as a young Cooper’s hawk darted out of a tree, soared low to the ground along a line of cars and dove into a nearby front yard. Dinets is a zoologist at the University of Tennessee ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. In November of 2021, Vladimir Dinets was driving his daughter to school when he first noticed a hawk using a pedestrian crosswalk. The bird—a young Cooper ...

As a recent account of a Cooper’s hawk in New Jersey has shown, however, sometimes, nature can flip that relationship right back on us. “Many animals have learned to use cars for their own ...

The hawk first crossed paths with zoologist Vladimir Dinets on a crisp, late-Autumn morning in West Orange, New Jersey. Dinets was stopped at a traffic light on the way to drop his daughter off at ...

But some creatures learn to navigate these environments with the ease of a native city slicker. Such is the case of the Cooper’s hawk (Accipiter cooperi), ruler of the streets for more than 50 years.