Editor’s note: Montana Birding is a monthly article featuring bird species of the Upper Clark Fork River Valley from Butte to Garrison. Author Gary Swant hopes the column will inspire people to take ...

Are the large black birds flying throughout the metro area crows or are they ravens? How can you tell the difference between the two? The birds could be either crows or ravens. The Cornell Lab of ...

Readers traveling in the Hill Country are asking how to tell the difference between crows and ravens. Both birds are big, bulky and black with raucous calls. But American crows are smaller and leaner ...

Beginner birders may find it difficult to identify these two black birds: the Common Raven and the American Crow. Ravens are larger and uncommon especially in Eastern Montana and Wyoming. Ravens, also ...

Living alongside a group of crows can be murder for a raven. This grudge match goes way back. In North America, ravens are both competitors and predators of the crow. Given the chance, brazen, ...

Biologist Stacia Backensto has fooled a raven. When trying to recapture birds on Alaska’s North Slope during her graduate student days at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, she wore a moustache and ...

Battle of the birbs Graphic: Ryan F. Mandelbaum; Raven: Wikimedia user CanadianWikilover; Crow: Wikimedia user Mdf; Sky: Wikimedia user Mohammed Tawsif Salam, Screenshot via Nintendo (Wikimedia ...

John M. Marzluff, professor of wildlife science, University of Washington Poe had his raven. Farmers have their scarecrows. In their new book, In the Company of Crows and Ravens (Yale University Press ...

Maybe we should consider eating crow. Not in the traditional sense, but because we appear to be in the midst of a crow boom. Ravens, too. A few columns ago, I asked if anyone else had noticed a marked ...