For jackdaws—black and gray relatives of crows—family comes first, according to a recent study published last month in Nature Communications. Scientists put these cognitively complex birds to the test ...
Crows, jays, ravens, magpies and their various other relatives (nutcrackers, choughs, jackdaws, etc.) belong to the taxonomic family Corvidae. It’s a sizeable family of about 130 species — a smaller ...