“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 ...

A “murder” in the light of a full moon: Though it’s not a commonly used term today, a group of crows is called a murder; the name came from their medieval reputation as harbingers of death. Let me ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

One is larger, smarter, and perhaps more vocally complex than the other. Olivia Young is a writer, fact checker, and green living expert passionate about tiny living, climate advocacy, and all things ...

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 ...

Crows and ravens are hard to tell apart, but basically, the common raven is bigger than the American and Northwestern crow. So, you might think that ravens would win in a fight. But that doesn’t seem ...

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 ...

It’s late October, season of the crow. Faux crows hunch over the lintels of Halloween spook houses and perch on the shoulders of would-be witches. The midnight-black birds blot the autumn sunset, and ...