Look at the tail: Ravens have a distinct wedged-shaped tail, while crows' tails are shorter and more squarish. And listen. I was taken aback when a couple of my friends said that all big black birds ...

Editor’s note: Montana Birding is a monthly article featuring bird species of the Upper Clark Fork River Valley from Butte to Garrison. Author Gary Swant hopes the column will inspire people to take ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A “murder” in the light of a full moon: Though it’s not a commonly used term today, a group of crows is called a murder; the name came from their medieval reputation as harbingers of death. Let me ...

“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 ...

What is that bird? There are some members of the Sierra Foothills Audubon Society that can identify more than 500 different species of birds. I can usually identify about 50 or so. The nice thing is ...

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 ...