They were then baked in a rook pie. The jackdaw is the smallest of the corvid family, easily recognised by its grey head and, up close, its piercing, light-blue eyes. Fond of nesting in holes, trees, ...

The members of the corvid family – rook, magpie and crow – are among the most intelligent of all birds; magpies, for instance, are one of the only creatures on earth able to recognise ...

I have never witnessed antagonism, but I wonder if these two species compete, and the rook is losing out ... Both species join big ‘corvid flocks’ in winter. Professor Ian D.