What Does an American Crow Look Like? It’s pretty much impossible to miss an American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos). These large, completely black birds in the corvid family tend to travel in flocks ...

Allisyn-Marie Gillet counts this as one of her favorite parts of winter: the huge swaths of American crows — hundreds of them, even thousands — that fly through cities like an avian river. “There can ...