Corvids, the family of birds that includes crows, rooks, ravens and magpies, are remarkably intelligent creatures. They have been known use tools, plan for the future, and recognize faces so well that ...

This week, the Puy du Fou theme park in western France put some new employees in the field: six trained rooks, members of the crow family, picking up small pieces of paper and cigarette butts in ...

Some birds are so clever and industrious that they’ve got quasi-jobs picking up after humans. Puy du Fou, a history-based theme park in Les Epesses, France, has trained six rooks to pick up trash in ...

Crows have an unspoken motto: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but they sure can come in handy. Two new studies unveil the ability of at least some crows to use tools in sophisticated ways, ...

At a theme park in France, a crew of crows clean up litter and throw it away. The birds are rooks, a type of crow found in Europe. A team of six of them band together to collect trash at Puy du Fou, a ...