While many stories of corvid ingenuity are true, some are not. The widely circulated anecdote about crows using cars as nutcrackers has been proven to be a myth; the birds do not place nuts on roads ...

“Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans” by John Marzluff and Tony Angell (Atria,$15). New in paperback: Marzluff, a renowned corvid expert and ...

In studies of avian intelligence, the corvid family — crows, ravens and jays — routinely top the charts of our continent’s most clever birds. In my last column, I wrote about scrub-jays, the champions ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Are crows among the smartest animals of all? Many scientists think that corvids - the family of birds that includes crows, ravens, rooks ...

Researchers have long suspected that corvids - the family of birds including ravens, crows and magpies - are highly intelligent. Researchers have long suspected that corvids - the family of birds ...

More than 30 million crows fly around the U.S., but the black birds may be among the least understood animals in the country. Now, new research is providing insight into their soaring intelligence and ...

The most read news blog of 2013 over at the Nature publishing stronghold was a discussion of whether or not crabs and lobsters feel pain. Nature just released another nugget from the public research ...

It's good news for an animal typically considered a bad omen. Mortimer the raven is actually a crow, and that means Evangeline MacKinnon doesn`t have to turn him over to be euthanized. In a case of ...

What is familiar, but not often seen, mysterious and can be heard in Napa County’s night hours? Of course, it’s the owl. There are a number of owl species dwelling in the county, and to be fair, not ...