Ninety percent of a sharp-shinned hawk’s diet is small birds, from the size of a sparrow to the size of a robin, and the larger females might even prey upon a pigeon or dove. Adult hawks need to eat four or five birds each day.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Domo Genesis and Sofiane Pamart perform, we boil down maple sap, juggle, sing opera about influencers, talk the “American Prometheus” and AI invades and Harvard explores “Institutional Neutrality in a Polarized World.”

It seems there’s always been reasons for bicycling to be controversial in Cambridge, starting in the late 19th century when cycling gained popularity in Cambridge – and the nation as a whole – as a form of exercise and opportunity for social connection.

Eastern coyotes appear in a range of colors from dark brown to reddish to grayish and even white – from a recessive gene also found in golden retrievers like the one that in Newfoundland that ran off with a coyote in 2001 and was never seen again.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, learn how to make sound effects, see a Glow Show with the MIT Spinning Arts Club, play a board game about Puerto Rico. take part in a pun competition and enjoy music, dance, storytelling and poetry.

In a final installment of Black Cambridge trailblazers for 2024, meet men who excelled as athletes and went on to work with youth and in expanding college multiculturalism and as an award-winning producer and director in documentary television.

Honoring Washington as a beloved president came to include minstrel shows in the early 1900s. That these performances were by prisoners in prisons playing the role of Washington’s enslaved people adds yet another layer of complexity.

In this Valentine’s Day month, I pay homage to W.E.B. Du Bois’ 1924 novel “Dark Princess” because it highlights the least-talked-about subject then and now: Black love.

What was this cute little songbird doing here in Cambridge? No one knows, but it got people’s attention – and now we’re paying attention to a very different aspect of ornithology and a sometimes grim history.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a weeklong Foundry Festival with a variety of things to do, astounding art, ice skating, a Ladysmith Black Mambazo performance and a dramatic session exploring “What if AI use goes too far?”