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 ...

so it's easy to understand how any kind of black bird might be seen as a bad omen associated with death. On battlefields, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A crow in Palghar, Maharashtra, has gone viral for imitating human words, an unusual trait for crows. The bird, cared for by ...

A viral video of a crow in Palghar, Maharashtra, mimicking human speech has amazed the internet. The crow, rescued by Tanuja Mukne three years ago, now speaks Marathi words like "Papa" and "Kaka," ...

This is a key way to keep crows away from bird feeders. Ensure you have enough trash cans to hold all of your family’s trash ...

If Kate St. John, author of the local bird blog Outside My Window, and Claire Staples of Squirrel Hill didn’t find a good vantage point to count the crows at dusk at Duquesne University ...

The Manitoba Woodlands District and Wildlife Association is hosting a sickening crow and magpie killing contest where prizes ...

A crow from a village in Maharashtra’s Palghar is stirring up attention on social media with its ability to speak like humans ...