How to Use corvid in a Sentence

corvid

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• Crows, jays and other corvids fashion tools from paper clips to fetch food.
  — Melissa Chan, Time, 22 Jan. 2020
• Over the last 20 years researchers studying corvids noticed signs that hinted the creatures might be able to plan as well.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 14 July 2017
• Contrary to popular belief, a corvid does not have to have its tongue split to be able to mimic like this.
  — Leah Asmelash and Brian Ries, CNN, 21 Aug. 2019
• About the same time, researchers noticed that birds known as corvids—which include jays, crows, and ravens—also showed signs of planning.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 13 July 2017
• If that were true, corvids and parrots should fail when tested with a wide diversity of tasks.
  — Onur Güntürkün, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2020
• Because crows and scrub-jays are in the same family — corvid — whatever scares the crows will also likely scare the scrub-jays.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 19 June 2019
• In the wild, where ravens don't rely upon a bread and cheese economy, the study offers insights into how corvids' complex social structure evolved.
  — National Geographic, 6 June 2017
• The largest evolutionary brain leap is evident in modern birds like parrots and corvids, the group that includes crows, ravens and other related birds.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 Apr. 2020
• Can corvids and apes plan for the future and think about other minds because those abilities are shared way back on the family tree, where mammals shared a last common ancestor with birds?
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 14 July 2017
• Like other corvids—a family that includes jays, ravens, crows, and magpies—this species is very vocal, and will use different alarm calls to alert the rest of the group to the presence of a predator above versus one from below, such as a snake.
  — National Geographic, 3 Mar. 2020
• 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, 2 May 2026
• The syrinx, which is unique to birds, produces the sounds that parrots, corvids, lyrebirds and mynahs use to mimic sounds.
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 14 Feb. 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
• Crows and ravens belong to the same corvid family and are often confused for each other, but there are ways to tell them apart.
  — Ramon Padilla, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024