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We’re focusing today on corvids, not COVID. The Corvidae family of birds (more commonly called corvids) is a bold bunch. This big, raucous family includes jays, crows, ravens, magpies and Clark’s ...

Crows and their corvid kin have brains that, relative to their body size, are among the largest of any bird. Crows congregate in Burnaby, British Columbia. Research suggests that like humans and other ...

As a naturalist at the Nature Discovery Center on Vail Mountain, I am commonly asked about the large black and white bird people see hopping around town. Perhaps to a local, this bird has lost its ...

To you, crows and jays might be noisy, obnoxious birds who eat garbage. But for large-seeded trees like pines, hickories, oaks, and chestnuts, they could be life-saving heroes. That’s because these ...

Crows, ravens, and other corvids are sometimes called feathered apes. Like primates, these birds form social groups, use tools, solve puzzles, recognize faces, and enjoy a good joke (especially if ...

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 ...