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 ...

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 ...

It's the size of a hawk. It's common only in wilderness areas. It's long since been driven out of settled areas by shooting and poisoning. I am speaking of the common raven. Raven pairs can be seen ...

Crows and ravens are two birds that are often mistaken for each other due to their similarities in appearance and behavior. However, there are distinct differences between these two species, including ...

The members of the crow family, which includes crows, jays, magpies and ravens, are a group of highly social and highly intelligent birds. Many researchers believe this to be the most intelligent ...

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 ...

Both species are also considered crafty, resourceful and adaptable. To tell them apart from a distance, watch the way they fly: a raven’s flight is smooth and regular interspersed with swoops, glides, ...

A “murder” in the light of a full moon: Though it’s not a commonly used term today, a group of crows is called a murder; the name came from their medieval reputation as harbingers of death. Let me ...

We shall begin the year with an ‘unkindness’ that rarely needed collective noun for the common raven. Majestic, ominous, rapacious and sagacious, with a coat the colour of night, perhaps no bird ...

What is that bird? There are some members of the Sierra Foothills Audubon Society that can identify more than 500 different species of birds. I can usually identify about 50 or so. The nice thing is ...