Here are some of the smartest birds in the world, and what makes them so intelligent. Members of the Corvidae family include birds like crows, ravens, jays, and magpies. These birds are ...

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 ...

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 ...

After "reports of deceased birds being found across the county" in the midst of concerns about the spread of avian influenza, ...

An unusually long-tailed black-and-white corvid with a black bill ... Flight: relatively slow, with steady, rowing wingbeats, but the birds are easily able to quickly change direction in flight.

Because they are omnivorous — they will eat just about anything — corvids (crows, jays, and magpies) prey upon live animals, ...