According to new research, jackdaw (two species of bird in the genus Coloeus) chicks listen to their elders—but there’s also ...

Young jackdaw chicks can learn about predators before leaving the nest by listening to alarm calls from adult birds.

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Birds don’t merely chirp to sing songs that sound pretty to the human ear; they chirp to communicate with each other. For some species, like the Eurasian jackdaw, their sounds are used to warn each ...

Survival in the wild usually comes with a steep learning curve. For young birds, that curve can be especially brutal. If you don’t know what a hawk sounds like before you leave the nest, your first ...

Jackdaw chicks learn about predators by listening to adults, reveals new research. Scientists played recordings of predator ...

On cold, dark winter mornings, small black crows known as jackdaws can be heard calling loudly to one another from their winter roosting spots in the U.K. before taking off simultaneously right around ...

Common and often overlooked, their curious calls and airshows at dusk are countryside staples Somewhere in the attic, I have a photograph of me with a jackdaw. Nothing remarkable about that, you might ...

Researchers have discovered that jackdaws use their eyes to communicate with each other -- the first time this has been shown in non-primates. Researchers in Cambridge and Exeter have discovered that ...

The western jackdaw is a relatively small bird from the raven family that not too many people know about. Although almost everyone has likely seen and enjoyed it ...

Faccombe, Hampshire: A small, dark, scythe-winged hobby puppets away a swallow, stealing a smoking patch of sky with it Four years after our son finished college, I’m back on the daily commute to take ...

The jackdaw, known in Maltese as ċawla, was once a very common bird in the Maltese Islands but is not found here anymore. Up to 150 years ago, it was so common that it bred in the ...