The Half Moon Bay City Council is considering passing an ordinance limiting public feeding of carnivorous birds and feral cats, citing public health and environmental concerns posed by residents.

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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 ...

Corvids, a large group of birds including crows and ravens, are a particularly intelligent and social animal. They have complicated family relationships and have even been known to create associations ...

The narrator of Edgar Allen Poe’s poem, The Raven, struggles to deal with the loss of his love, Lenore, and is haunted by her death. The presence of a raven at his window adds a sinister element to ...