Can a crow—or any bird—make decisions of this sort? Researchers studying crows, ravens, and other corvids (the family of songbirds that includes crows, jays, rooks, magpies, and others ...

Yet, aside from notoriously clever corvids and cheekily smart parrots, no other birds were previously known to have object ...

Biologists already knew the corvid family–it includes crows, ravens, rooks, magpies and jackdaws–to be among the smartest of all birds. But this remarkable piece of behavior–it features in ...

An unusually long-tailed black-and-white corvid with a black bill ... Flight: relatively slow, with steady, rowing wingbeats, but the birds are easily able to quickly change direction in flight.

A warning has been issued to everyone in the UK not to chase off a magpie if they see one in their garden. Magpies are one of the most common birds on the island. Members of the corvid family, they ...