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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Renowned for their cognitive abilities, corvids exhibit problem-solving skills, tool usage and a remarkable capacity for learning, which sets them apart in the avian realm. They are some of the most ...

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 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 ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. To find out, we asked some expert corvid researchers—corvids being the bird ...

University of New England provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Among birds, crows and ravens (or corvids) are the most intelligent. They have the largest brains for body size; they’re ...

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