DEAR JOAN: Something interesting happened last week in my yard. I had just gotten home when l heard loud (really loud) cawing from about a dozen crows in my backyard. I looked outside and saw the ...

Crows, along with ravens and magpies, as a type of bird known as corvids. They are highly intelligent, with good memories, capable of mimicking human speech, and have been known to hold grudges, as ...

As winter approaches, a silence creeps over the natural landscape. Songbirds are mostly quiet now, not to resume their cheery singing until early next spring. Bees have stopped buzzing. Katydids and ...

For Susan Johanson of Bucktown, morning is a time to sip coffee on the deck and listen to the birds sing. The loud, raspy cawing of crows is not what she has in mind. Yet lately, it seems like that's ...

DEAR JOAN: Something interesting happened last week in my yard. I had just gotten home when l heard loud (really loud) cawing from about a dozen crows in my backyard. I looked outside and saw the ...