Q. I see crows around the mall near a few fast-food places with outdoor seating. They don’t let people get close but will pick up discarded French fries as well as dropped hot dogs and hamburgers.

Whether crows, ravens, and other “corvids” are making multipart tools like hooked sticks to reach grubs, solving geometry puzzles made famous by Aesop, or nudging a clueless hedgehog across a highway ...

In Sunnyside, Toppenish, and Wapato each winter afternoon, Lower Valley residents are treated to, or disgusted by, a wildlife spectacle of hundreds or even thousands of American crows flocking from ...

I’m continuing my look at some of the more common critters that we see every day, but rarely give a second thought. I am often asked “What is my favorite bird?” This is like being asked “What is your ...

Ravens and crows are among the most fascinating birds in the world, captivating people with their intelligence, adaptability, ...

Some birds are so clever and industrious that they’ve got quasi-jobs picking up after humans. Puy du Fou, a history-based theme park in Les Epesses, France, has trained six rooks to pick up trash in ...

Whenever the issue of intelligence arises, human beings and mammals are usually the first ones to come to mind. And yet there is a rhetorical method of birds to disapprove of this notion. This has ...

on a university campus in Japan. Carrion crows and humans line up patiently, waiting for the traffic to halt. When the lights change, the birds hop in front of the cars and place walnuts, which they ...