A hawk in a New Jersey town has learned to use a neighborhood traffic light to hunt more effectively, a study published Thursday found.

The study in Frontiers of Ethology represents further evidence of how certain bird species have adapted to urban life in surprising ways.

“The behavior described here is an impressive feat of intelligence,” the author wrote, “going a long way to explain the species’ ability to successfully colonize such unusual and dangerous environment as [an] urban landscape.”

Past research has uncovered crows that use cars........

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