“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 ...

Maybe it’s because my earliest childhood cartoon heroes were Heckle and Jeckle, but it has always struck me as odd that the smartest family of birds in North America — the Corvidae — receive such a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the November gloom intensifies, you might be seeing more crows and ravens in hovering in the sky. And maybe you’re thinking, like Dutch start-up Crowbar is, that all of those birds could somehow be ...

We’ve written before about how crows are thrifty, vengeful bird-geniuses. One study published in the journal Animal Behavior shows they also may be masters of self-control. Researchers tested the ...

When is Edgar likely to return to his Palmdale home to live out the remaining 25 or so years of his life? Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.” At least that’s what state and federal wildlife officials have ...