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 ...

Corvus is a widely distributed genus of birds in the family Corvidae ... In Europe, the word “crow” is used to refer to the carrion crow or the hooded crow, while in North America it is ...

Scientists tested crows on their ability to recognize “geometric regularity,” a skill previously assumed to be unique to ...

The sight of tiny sparrows fluttering between the branches of a hedge is a quintessential part of a walk in the countryside. Just as the repetitive “tap-tap-tap” of the woodpecker, the ...

A crow from a village in Maharashtra has gone viral for its ability to mimic human speech, astonishing the internet with phrases like 'Papa' and 'Kaka ...

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 ...

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 crow from a village in Maharashtra’s Palghar is stirring up attention on social media with its ability to speak like humans. Mangalya Munke discovered a 15-day-old injured crow under a tree and ...