Cooper’s and sharp-shinned hawks are in the genus Accipiter, which includes the northern goshawk that rarely shows up in Texas. Cooper’s hawk was named for American zoologist William Cooper ...

Georgia is home to a variety of diverse wildlife, whether you’re looking at the native flora and fauna or visiting some of ...

Females are a third larger than males, approaching the size of a male Cooper’s hawk. They are slightly larger than a jay. They are beautiful with slate blue gray above with narrow, coarsely ...

Cooper’s hawks and sharp-shinned hawks are slender, long-tailed raptors that prey chiefly upon birds, the larger Cooper’s hawks favoring doves and robins and the sharp-shinned hawks taking ...

Cooper’s hawk: A common medium-sized hawk named after American naturalist William Cooper. A skilled and speedy flier, it can often be seen hunting for an easy meal around backyard bird feeders.

A young male Cooper’s hawk is shown to people at Hawk Ridge Nature Reserve before being released. Hawks are occasionally trapped, banded and released during Hawk Weekend events. Steve Kuchera ...

(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 ...

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.