Crows and ravens are often confused with each other. In comparison, there are enough similarities in physical features and terminology to believe that these birds are, in fact, the same.

Being able to identify these birds is a great educational experience too. Be it a serious birdwatcher or a mere nature enthusiast, learning how to tell apart crows from ravens enhances one's ...

You see them in all of Payson’s parking lots. Are those large, black birds crows or ravens? It’s rather difficult to tell ...

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 ...

Besides being dark and mysterious, crows are extremely intelligent birds. So smart, in fact, that it might be a little bit scary. Even though their brains are the size of a human thumb, their ...

NAIROBI ― Introduced to East Africa in 1891, in Zanzibar, to deal with domestic food waste, Indian house crows are now ...

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’s my favorite bird? This is like being asked ...

Octopuses are skilled escape artists, with some even escaping their enclosures and swimming all the way back to the wild. Their jailbreaking is less surprising in light of the fact that they have a ...

Among birds, New Caledonian crows have risen to the top as undisputed ... these crows aren’t the only smart members of the Corvidae family. Ravens, magpies and even common urban crows have ...