Ravens and crows are among the most fascinating birds in the world, captivating people with their intelligence, adaptability, ...

“There were three ravens sat on a tree, they were as black as they could be. … Then one of them said to his make, where should we our breakfast take?” That’s a ballad I often enjoy singing, from ...

The members of the crow family, which includes crows, jays, magpies and ravens, are a group of highly social and highly intelligent birds. Many researchers believe this to be the most intelligent ...

Readers traveling in the Hill Country are asking how to tell the difference between crows and ravens. Both birds are big, bulky and black with raucous calls. But American crows are smaller and leaner ...

Are the large black birds flying throughout the metro area crows or are they ravens? How can you tell the difference between the two? The birds could be either crows or ravens. The Cornell Lab of ...

The two species undertook a rapid expansion across the planet during their evolution, during which time they left other members of their group, the corvidae, including jays, magpies and jackdaws, ...

Crows and ravens are both black birds, but that’s about where the similarities end. The two birds are notorious for clashing with one another in the wild, and curious researchers from Cornell ...

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, ...

Biologist Stacia Backensto has fooled a raven. When trying to recapture birds on Alaska’s North Slope during her graduate student days at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, she wore a mustache and ...

DEAR JOAN: On a recent morning, my wife and I saw two ravens perched in a tree at our house. Later, some crows parked themselves in neighboring trees surrounding the ravens. We have never seen ravens ...

The notion that crows and ravens might reward humans who provide them food motivated the title of the book Tony Angell and I recently published (Gifts of the Crow; 2012 Simon and Schuster). When I ...