That sound correctly forecast an impending long red light on fewer than four percent of mornings. Once the traffic blocked its quarry’s sightline, the hawk launched. Hawk’s attack route The bird’s ...

The route used by the hawk to attack a flock of birds feeding in front of house #2 is shown with white arrows. Credit: Frontiers in Ethology (2025). DOI: 10.3389/fetho.2025.1539103 ...

The research area. White arrows show the hawk’s attack route on a flock feeding near house #2. The hawk appeared in the tree by house #11 when sound signals at the intersection (white asterisks) ...

The hawk, in other words, appears to have learned to interpret a traffic signal and take advantage of it, in its quest to hunt. Which is, with all due respect, more impressive than how most humans ...

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’s hawk, to be exact—wasn’t using the ...

A Young Cooper’s Hawk Learned to Use a Crosswalk Signal to Launch Surprise Attacks on Other Birds Researcher Vladimir Dinets watched the bird repeatedly sneak behind a row of cars to ambush its ...

A hawk with a propensity to dive-bomb and attack bald heads has finally been captured after terrorizing a British village for weeks. The bird of prey drew blood from several of its 50 or so ...

An elderly man had to be treated in hospital after a hawk drew blood when it swooped on him. Jim Hewitt, 75, from Flamstead, Hertfordshire said he was walking to the shop to get some milk and felt ...

The Harris’s hawk, a bird usually native to Brazil, Argentina and Chile, has caused havoc in the historic parish village of Flamstead, swooping down and attacking tall men over the past month.

A hawk that attacked between 40 and 50 people may have to be euthanised, a council warned. Flamstead Parish Council said a falconer had been brought into the Hertfordshire village to try and catch ...