The elegant and intelligent birds in the Corvus genus have finally been getting the appreciation they deserve lately, with recent studies not just shedding light on crow and raven tool usage but ...
Corvids are birds that belong to the family Corvidae and in Australia are crows and ravens. Their cry is as much a soundtrack of regional Australia as the relentless drone of a billion insects.
Crows and ravens may look similar, but they have distinct differences. Ravens are larger with chunkier beaks, longer shaggy feathers on their necks, deeper croaks, and more acrobatic flight patterns.
You see them in all of Payson’s parking lots. Are those large, black birds crows or ravens? It’s rather difficult to tell ...
I’m continuing my look at some of the more common critters that we see every day, but rarely give a second thought. I am often asked “What is my favorite bird?” This is like being asked ...
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.
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 ...