https://phys.org/news/2018-11-woodland-hawks-flock-urban-buffet.html > According to the researchers, the birds are doing so well that an increasing number of rural woodland hawks are, in fact, city-bred. > "Top predators are beginning to use urban areas more frequently and establish breeding populations, and hawks are a nice example of this," explains Benjamin Zuckerberg, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of wildlife ecology and a senior author of the new study. "For hawks, the secret is out: There is a hyperabundance of prey" in the city.