Crows And Blue Jays

Life Histories of North American Jays, Crows, and Titmice, Order Passeriformes

This is the fifteenth in a series of bulletins of the United States National Museum on the life histories of North American birds, with previous numbers issued as follows: 107, 113, 121, 126, 130, 135, 142, 146, 162, 167, 170, 174, 176, 179. This bulletin deals with the Order Passeriformes, specifically the Family Corvidae (Jays, magpies, crows, ravens) and Family Paridae (Chickadees, titmice, bushtits, verdins) of North America.

Crows of the World

Crows are familiar birds to almost everyone. They are a wide-ranging group whose activities often bring them into contact with man, frequently to their detriment. However, they are a successful family, both in terms of numbers and species, which includes the Blue Jay and Magpie of North America, the Rook of England, the House Crow of India and the Little Raven of Australia. They exhibit great diversity in colour, size and patterns of behaviour. In this second edition, Derek Goodwin has retained the basic format of his earlier work, with all relevant aspects of their appearance, biology and behaviour being described, but he has added up-to-date information as appropriate, much of which was sent to him from readers of the first edition.

Cassell's Natural History