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.

However, in North America, the following can help different them: The Common Raven often soars and will turn somersaults in flight, while the American Crow rarely soars and never flips over in flight.

When referring to crows though, most people imagine the American crow. For the sake of this article, that is what we’ll be ...

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 ...

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 ...

Somewhere in Terre Haute, a crow will perch on the same building that bird’s father once sat upon. And his grandfather before ...