Common ravens, Corvus corax, were formerly known as northern ravens. They are magnificent birds: large, glossy, black, intelligent and playful, that are not to be confused with their cousins, American ...

“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 ...

There's probably something in your world that makes you go "Hmmm..." Our feature OKI Wanna Know is a chance for you to get an answer. This week, WVXU's Bill Rinehart enters the world of birds. Spence ...

Biologist Stacia Backensto has fooled a raven. When trying to recapture birds on Alaska’s North Slope during her graduate student days at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, she wore a moustache and ...

The traits of their earliest ancestors allowed the extremely intelligent animals to have both the brains and the brawn to survive in a spectrum of habitats. (CN) — Researchers at Washington University ...

"Nevermore," quoth the raven in Edgar Allan Poe's eponymous poem. "No more," quoth Bay Area residents, sick of the bird's squawking and propensity for pooping on windshields. The population of ravens ...

Grackles: You either love them, love to hate them or — wait, is that a crow? While grackles are so popular they have been dubbed the “the unofficial city mascot,” University of Texas biology professor ...

It’s not exactly “The Birds,” but a proliferation of native ravens and crows in Marin and around the state has some environmentalists concerned about damage to the ecosystem because of the smart, ...

Biologist Stacia Backensto has fooled a raven. When trying to recapture birds on Alaska’s North Slope during her graduate student days at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, she wore a mustache and ...