The American crow is the “default” crow across most of North America. It overlaps broadly with the common raven, and to a lesser extent with the Chihuahuan raven, fish crow, and northwestern crow.

We often overlook or ignore the more common critters in the natural world. The eastern gray squirrel and chipmunk come to mind as examples of common critters that many people don’t think ...

Although the comparison is generally true between all crows vs ravens, for the sake of simplicity, the differences will be mainly between the common raven and the American crow. Let’s make an in ...