All Corvids have stout, strong bills that work well for their omnivorous diet and strong legs and feet for a lifestyle both arboreal and terrestrial in nature.Ĭorvids are generally sombre coloured birds adult crows and ravens are mostly black while shades of grey, blue, brown, and black are the norm for other species.
Generally medium sized birds, Corvids such as the crows, nutcrackers, and choughs have short, square tails while the tails of jays and magpies are long and graceful. Among the smartest of birds, Common Ravens can be taught complicated tricks while jays and nutcrackers have an amazing capacity to recall where they have cached food. Members of the Corvidae are renowned for their intelligence and bold behaviour. Crows and ravens, raucous jays, long-tailed magpies and nutcrackers are all members of this family. There are twelve species of Corvidae (commonly called “Corvids") in seven genera that occur in Europe. The bird family that includes jays and crows, the Corvidae (pronounced COR-vi-dee), includes one hundred and twenty-six species in twenty-four genera found on all continents except for Antarctica (IOC World Bird List, version 2.3). The crows, magpies, and jays are one of the one hundred eighteen families of birds in the order PASSERIFORMES (pronounced pas-ser-i-FOR-meez) a large taxonomic order that also includes larks, titmice, and wrens.
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