How to Use corvid in a Sentence

corvid

noun
  • Crows, jays and other corvids fashion tools from paper clips to fetch food.
    — Melissa Chan, Time, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Jackdaws are clever corvids that belong to the same family as crows and ravens.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2023
  • If that were true, corvids and parrots should fail when tested with a wide diversity of tasks.
    — Onur Güntürkün, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2020
  • Contrary to popular belief, a corvid does not have to have its tongue split to be able to mimic like this.
    — Leah Asmelash and Brian Ries, CNN, 21 Aug. 2019
  • What’s more, corvids are extremely smart, and blue jays and green jays look quite different from one another.
    — Amanda Schupak, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
  • About the same time, researchers noticed that birds known as corvids—which include jays, crows, and ravens—also showed signs of planning.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 13 July 2017
  • Over the last 20 years researchers studying corvids noticed signs that hinted the creatures might be able to plan as well.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 14 July 2017
  • Because crows and scrub-jays are in the same family — corvid — whatever scares the crows will also likely scare the scrub-jays.
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 19 June 2019
  • In the wild, where ravens don't rely upon a bread and cheese economy, the study offers insights into how corvids' complex social structure evolved.
    — National Geographic, 6 June 2017
  • The experiment showed the corvids could quickly piece together how to ditch birds from the other group in order to maximize mealworms.
    — Tara Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Vultures, their fans insist, rival the famously brainy parrots and corvids in the use of tools and artful maneuvers to secure their needs and desires.
    — Natalie Angier, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The largest evolutionary brain leap is evident in modern birds like parrots and corvids, the group that includes crows, ravens and other related birds.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Can corvids and apes plan for the future and think about other minds because those abilities are shared way back on the family tree, where mammals shared a last common ancestor with birds?
    — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 14 July 2017
  • The study adds to the growing laundry list of cognitive abilities that corvids (the bird family including crows, ravens, magpies, and jays) possess.
    — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 23 May 2024
  • In the summer the barbecuers returned to the park and there were leftover chicken wings abandoned on disposable grills, congealing pizza slices on the benches, and bratwurst ends in the bins — fat times for corvids.
    — Susanna Forrest, Longreads, 23 Mar. 2023
  • But the way Veronika changed her grip on the broom and her movement of it in anticipation of the outcome calls to mind tool-using behaviors in the famously clever primates and corvids (crows and their kin).
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2026
  • So did corvids and apes arrive at their sophisticated intelligence in totally different ways or based on similar factors and principles?
    — William Wan, Alaska Dispatch News, 14 July 2017
  • Like other corvids—a family that includes jays, ravens, crows, and magpies—this species is very vocal, and will use different alarm calls to alert the rest of the group to the presence of a predator above versus one from below, such as a snake.
    — National Geographic, 3 Mar. 2020
  • But outside, trees are blossoming, and birds are out and about—including corvids, which have been unfairly brought into the world of global health all the sudden by the unfortunate single-letter difference in their name.
    — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Her beats include quantum technology, AI, animal intelligence, corvids, and cephalopods.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The organization acquires and distributes several bird species — excluding eagles — including hawks, falcons, condors, vultures, corvids, songbirds and water birds.
    — Elizabeth Montgomery, azcentral, 11 June 2019

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