The typical diet of a sharp-shinned hawk is 90 percent small songbirds, but the rest includes small rodents. A hungry ...

The surprise catch of a gar on the Kankakee River, a block-party sighting of a Cooper's hawk and an ethical question on non-native mushrooms are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond ...

Regarding the safety of the flying public and raptor conservation both, this matters. Cooper's Hawks are medium-sized, aerodynamic raptors that specialize in hunting other birds.

This Cooper’s hawk was also young, and it was unusual for the young ones to master hunting techniques and often died of starvation, as per the Smithsonian Magazine.

DEAR JOAN: The last week or so, a hawk has been hunting the squirrels in our backyard in Walnut Creek. The hawk stalks them, flushes them out of the bushes and attacks from low altitude, so far ...