The Featherence journal
Field notes from the corvid world.
Big claims travel fast. We go back to the studies, explain what researchers actually tested, and share what the findings can—and can’t—tell us about crows and ravens.
Can crows recognize human faces?
A landmark Seattle study found that American crows learned a threatening face and remembered it for years.
Read the field note → Social learning · 6 min readHow a whole crow flock can learn about a person
One crow’s experience can become information shared across a community—including to birds that were not there.
Read the field note → Viral stories · 6 min readDo crows bring gifts to people who feed them?
What a viral crow story and research on raven bartering really say about objects, food, and intent.
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