carrion crow
noun
: a uniformly black crow (Corvus corone corone) occurring in much of western Europe
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To test the birds’ mathematical abilities, scientists in Germany placed two male carrion crows (Corvus corone) in front of a digital screen in a laboratory.
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
Intelligent and well-adapted to life around humans, carrion crows like this one often gather in a park in Basel, Switzerland.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2024
To create this painterly effect of a sitting carrion crow, Hřebíček deliberately moved his camera in different directions while using a long shutter speed.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
The team selected two carrion crows, two collared doves, and a wood pigeon–similar species to what Neanderthals might have eaten.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 July 2024
One collared dove and one carrion crow were butchered raw using a flint flake.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 July 2024
The new study of carrion crows is the first to explicitly show that any other species besides humans can link voluntary vocalizations with an understanding of quantity.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 23 May 2024
In total, their experiments suggest carrion crows have an advanced capacity to make or withhold vocalizations in response to arbitrary cues–tallying aloud as toddlers do.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 23 May 2024
Auke-Florian Hiemstra, the lead study author and a biologist researching animal architecture at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, and his co-researchers described four nests in the study — three by Eurasian magpies and one by a carrion crow — that used an abundance of anti-bird spikes.
—Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 14 July 2023
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
Intelligent and well-adapted to life around humans, carrion crows like this one often gather in a park in Basel, Switzerland.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2024
To create this painterly effect of a sitting carrion crow, Hřebíček deliberately moved his camera in different directions while using a long shutter speed.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
The team selected two carrion crows, two collared doves, and a wood pigeon–similar species to what Neanderthals might have eaten.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 July 2024
One collared dove and one carrion crow were butchered raw using a flint flake.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 July 2024
The new study of carrion crows is the first to explicitly show that any other species besides humans can link voluntary vocalizations with an understanding of quantity.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 23 May 2024
In total, their experiments suggest carrion crows have an advanced capacity to make or withhold vocalizations in response to arbitrary cues–tallying aloud as toddlers do.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 23 May 2024
Auke-Florian Hiemstra, the lead study author and a biologist researching animal architecture at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, and his co-researchers described four nests in the study — three by Eurasian magpies and one by a carrion crow — that used an abundance of anti-bird spikes.
—Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 14 July 2023
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