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 ...

We have all seen YouTube videos of birds doing something clever, from displacing water, to using tools to extract a treat. All birds are fascinating but there is no doubt that some types are ...

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 ...

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.

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

A recent uptick in reports of dead loons and test results indicate an impact from West Nile virus (WNV), according to nongame ...

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