: any of a family (Corvidae) of stout-billed passerine birds including the crows, jays, magpies, and the raven
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But corvids like ravens, crows and jays have been challenging this notion for quite some time.
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Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
But the way Veronika changed her grip on the broom and her movement of it in anticipation of the outcome calls to mind tool-using behaviors in the famously clever primates and corvids (crows and their kin).
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2026
What’s more, corvids are extremely smart, and blue jays and green jays look quite different from one another.
—Amanda Schupak, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
Or that jays and other corvids are scatter-hoarders, and will spend an entire day picking nuts out of a feeder's seed mix to hide caches around the yard.
—Kat Merck, Wired News, 24 Sep. 2025
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Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
But the way Veronika changed her grip on the broom and her movement of it in anticipation of the outcome calls to mind tool-using behaviors in the famously clever primates and corvids (crows and their kin).
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2026
What’s more, corvids are extremely smart, and blue jays and green jays look quite different from one another.
—Amanda Schupak, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
Or that jays and other corvids are scatter-hoarders, and will spend an entire day picking nuts out of a feeder's seed mix to hide caches around the yard.
—Kat Merck, Wired News, 24 Sep. 2025
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“Corvid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/corvid. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.
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