The American crow is the “default” crow across most of North America. It overlaps broadly with the common raven, and to a lesser extent with the Chihuahuan raven, fish crow, and northwestern crow.

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 ...

Their ability to “exploit urban riches,” as one 2001 avian ecology paper titled “Causes and consequences of expanding American Crow populations” described their capacity to optimize a good ...

The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South for three quarters of a century ...

Wild bird populations are declining nationwide, and a trend map from Cornell University’s eBird site shows that drop applies to the American crow. “Many, many species are declining right now ...