Researcher Vladimir Dinets watched the bird repeatedly sneak behind a row of cars to ambush its unsuspecting prey ...

Birds continue to be amazing. Crows can use tools and hold grudges against specific people. Magpies can recognize themselves ...

Dr Vladimir Dinets, a zoologist who studies animal behavior, ecology, and conservation, is the author of a recently published ...

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 ...

A hawk in New Jersey has been seen using a clever, urban hunting strategy: taking sound cues from traffic signals to exploit ...

In a nutshell A young Cooper’s hawk in New Jersey learned to use pedestrian crossing signals, specifically their sounds, as ...

One winter morning in suburban New Jersey, Vladimir Dinets stopped at a red light — and saw something he couldn’t believe.

Vladimir Dinets was driving his daughter to school one morning when a flash of movement caught his eye. He watched as a young Cooper’s hawk darted out of a tree, soared low to the ground along a ...

A young Cooper’s hawk used traffic signals and parked cars to outwit its prey, revealing surprising intelligence in urban ...

According to Dinets, goshawks seem to have adopted the same technique after observing them. In South America, several vulture ...

The Cooper’s hawk Dinets spotted on his commute was, in that sense at least, not unusual. But it was the particular technique ...