Biologists already knew the corvid family–it includes crows, ravens, rooks, magpies and jackdaws–to be among the smartest of all birds. But this remarkable piece of behavior–it features in ...

Can a crow—or any bird—make decisions of this sort? Researchers studying crows, ravens, and other corvids (the family of songbirds that includes crows, jays, rooks, magpies, and others ...

The American crow is the “default” crow across most of North America. It overlaps broadly with the common raven, and to a lesser extent with the Chihuahuan raven, fish crow, and northwestern crow.

If Kate St. John, author of the local bird blog Outside My Window, and Claire Staples of Squirrel Hill didn’t find a good vantage point to count the crows at dusk at Duquesne University ...

A Dutch startup wants to teach the crow population to pick up cigarette butts in exchange for bird treats. The whole Corvidae family of birds is highly intelligent so it shouldn’t be a problem ...