The sight of tiny sparrows fluttering between the branches of a hedge is a quintessential part of a walk in the countryside. Just as the repetitive “tap-tap-tap” of the woodpecker, the ...

Glossy black and white bodies and wings with a beautiful iridescent blue-green sheen on their back and tail feathers, both ...

It’s pretty much impossible to miss an American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos). These large, completely black birds in the corvid family tend to travel in flocks ranging from a handful of birds ...

Now see those colours, close up! From more than a few yards they are, as their very name suggests, black-headed gulls. Seen ...

It’s a member of the Corvidae family, which means it’s related to the crow and the raven ... The wings are beautifully patterned with bars of black, blue, and white. The bird’s underparts are ...

In his opinion, the wisest birds in the world would be members of the corvid family, which includes the crows, ravens, and jays ... In the famous poem by Edgar Allan Poe, he looks upon the black ...

Unlike the usual parrot tricks, this crow speaks like a pro, saying words like “Papa” and “Kaka” in a human-like voice. Rescued three years ago by a woman named Tanuja Mukne, the bird has ...

Crows in a lab were able to distinguish shapes that exhibited right angles, parallel lines, and symmetry, suggesting that, ...

Three years ago, Mukne found the bird in her garden and spent fifteen days nursing it back to health. Now, to everyone's surprise, the crow communicates with family members in a human-like voice.

The chough (pronounced ‘chuff’) is the rarest member of the crow family in Ireland ... proportion of the world’s population of these birds, at about 900 breeding pairs.