There’s something rather autumnal about watching a flock of American crows glean the last scattered kernels of corn from a harvested field as a sentry stands guard ready to utter the alarm with some ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 idea that "the brain is bigger in intelligence is the higher intelligence" was the common belief among biologists, but the latest research suggests that crows of smaller brains than primates are ...

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 ...

Crows and ravens owe their world-dominating success to both their body shapes and their proportionately large brains, new research suggests. The two species undertook a rapid expansion across the ...