Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie’ actually referred to rook pie• The Scandinavian god Odin kept two pet ravens, Huginn (Norse for thought) and Muninn (memory), that told him every secret seen ...

Since 1990 the numbers of ravens and rooks in the Netherlands have more or less doubled. The number of carrion crows has increased by about 20 percent in the space of ten years. Other members of the ...

Here’s the Wildlife Trust’s guide to telling them apart. n The corvid family includes the crow, raven, rook, jackdaw, jay and magpie, some of which are among our most widespread and successful ...

Larger than a rook, but smaller than a raven, the carrion crow is susceptible to a calcium deficiency which causes problems with its feathers, which in turn leads to injuries. Other regular ...

raven, hooded crow, jackdaw and chough. Glossy black, the rook’s slender greyish bill with bare whitish patch at its base is perfectly adapted for probing in the bird’s preferred feeding ...

The elegant and intelligent birds in the Corvus genus have finally been getting the appreciation they deserve lately, with recent studies not just shedding light on crow and raven tool usage but ...

While the species of the crow family - including jackdaw, magpie, crow, rook and raven - are renowned in myth and legend for their intelligence, a scientific basis for this has been hard to establish.

a rook called Gilbert, another crow called Charlie and a raven called Elijah. Complimentary crow-shaped snacks were also on offer alongside a bar serving drinks, although it is not thought the ...

How Helen and the disabled rook 'Russell Crow' have become buddies, despite his mischief. Mistaking the small bundle of black feathers for a baby crow, Helen decided to name him Russell Crow in ...