Opening a bluebird nest box to check on chick progress, I found instead one dead bluebird, cause of death unknown. The most interesting thing in the box, however, was not the bird but the dozen or so ...

These birds may not have evolved to use tools in the wild, but carrion crows, a member of the crow (Corvid) family, have now shown they’re more than capable of learning how. In a study recently ...

British families are being encouraged to keep an eye out for crows this summer, as the RSPB reveals a worrying 4.8 per cent decline in the UK's carrion crow population. The society highlighted that ...

Animal training can teach carrion crows to use a stick tool to retrieve food. With increasing practice, they not only demonstrate great skill and achieve their objective in a few steps, they also ...

New research shows a trend of vultures avoiding Portugal in favour of Spain, it's reported. Researchers from Portugal and Spain tagged 71 carrion birds for three years, and noticed that only 13 of ...