Crows, ravens and jays are members of the Corvidae family, or corvids for short. Medium to large perching birds with strong bills and feet — and feathers that are predominately black or blue — they ...

Humans tend to think that we are the most intelligent life-forms on Earth, and that we’re largely followed by our close relatives such as chimps and gorillas. But there are some areas of cognition in ...

Warblington, Hampshire: The crows had shellfish grasped in their bills, which they dropped on to the rocky beach below As I walked along the coastal path at low tide, I noticed a flock of a dozen or ...

Some birds are so clever and industrious that they’ve got quasi-jobs picking up after humans. Puy du Fou, a history-based theme park in Les Epesses, France, has trained six rooks to pick up trash in ...

They’re smart and resourceful — and they’re flocking to Bay Area cities in record numbers. They know this is where all the opportunity is these days. Crows and ravens were once rare in urban areas, ...