The sight of tiny sparrows fluttering between the branches of a hedge is a quintessential part of a walk in the countryside. Just as the repetitive “tap-tap-tap” of the woodpecker, the ...

In Europe, the word “crow” is used to refer to the carrion crow or the hooded crow, while in North America it is used for the American crow or the northwestern crow. Recent research has found ...

Crows are objectively awesome-leaving gifts for humans who prove themselves worthy, exploring interspecies friendships and learning to count-and a new study on corvid intelligence published in Science ...

A Japanese carrion crow examines the fruit of its labors On the Pacific island of New Caledonia, the crows demonstrate a tool-making, and tool using, capability comparable to Palaeolithic man’s.

History is a ruthless excluder. We remember some artists and not others, and it is not always entirely down to talent. In exploring the life of his great-great-uncle, Maynooth University professor ...