Cooper's hawk, Accipiter cooperii, photographed at the 14th annual hawk watch at Smith Point, Gulf Coast Bird Observatory, Chambers County, Texas, USA. Image: Joseph Kennedy, 30 September 2010 [with ...

The natural world that surrounds us influences many aspect of our lives. Even my generation’s cherished Saturday morning activity of cartoon viewing was persuaded to a large extent by what the ...

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One of the classic tricky identifications in the birding world is distinguishing a sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus) from a Cooper’s hawk (Accipiter cooperii): both are accipiters (a type of ...

Vladimir Dinets, an animal behaviorist at the University of Tennessee, reported that he observed Cooper's hawks (Accipiter cooperii), a medium-sized bird of prey native to North America, hunting using ...

Tagged juvenile female Cooper’s Hawk from our study that died from a vehicle collision on Interstate 25 in Belen, New Mexico during her initial dispersal from her natal site. This was a particularly ...

One of the classic "tricky identifications" in the birding world is distinguishing a sharp shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus) from a Cooper's hawk (Accipiter cooperii). Both are accipiters (a type of ...

In a recent paper, a researcher noted a bird’s surprising urban adaptation: A young Cooper’s hawk used a pedestrian crossing signal to help it hunt more successfully in a busy neighborhood. Vladimir ...