Jennifer Olson captured almost all of her white raven photos last year on her cell phone. (Courtesy Jennifer Olson) The odds of a white raven being born are one in 30,000. Despite those ...

Throughout the fall, a rare white raven breakfasted at a McDonald’s and lunched at a Wendy’s in Anchorage, Alaska. Photographs confirmed word-of-mouth reports; a Facebook group that now has more than ...

Maybe it’s the evocative, iridescent black and purple feathers. Or its tendency in earlier times closely to track wandering tribes of humans, who always could be counted on to discard a tasty morsel.

Crows and ravens are both all-black, smart, social members of the genus Corvus that’ll eat anything from dead animals to garbage. In other words, comparing them is less apples-to-oranges and more ...