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 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 ...

In Colorado’s mountains, really big black birds are either American crows or common ravens, both of which can be found year-round throughout the state and both of which are often mistaken for the ...

Many years ago when Danny, that city boy, was putting in the garden in the field, he heard a loud crrroooak and thought a person was imitating a raven, but not very well. He had never seen or heard ...

The flocks settle in the bare winter trees in ominous silence or fill the air with banshee screams and unearthly gurgles and rattles. Seattle writer Lyanda Lynn Haupt calls it "Crow Planet." You're ...

On a recent trip into the Alaskan wilderness I had the opportunity to listen and wonder about animal communication. I marveled at the thunderous breaths and splashes of humpback whales, though I could ...

If people were asked to name the most familiar American bird, several names would immediately top the list: robin, bluebird, blue jay, bald eagle, cardinal. Crow would probably also come to mind, ...

OK, so we don’t know exactly what they’re saying, though I suspect that at least some of the time they are yelling, “Give me a peanut, human!” But this fantastic video from ornithologist Kevin McGowan ...