Corvus meaning ‘raven’ in Latin and splendens meaning ‘shining’ or ‘brilliance’ — is a fitting name for the strikingly ...

These Clever Birds Will Work for Food Trained rooks are theme-park janitors, and a freelance crow greets tourists in England.

At a theme park in France, a crew of crows clean up litter and throw it away. The birds are rooks, a type of crow found in Europe. A team of six of them band together to collect trash at Puy du ...

Corvids, the family of birds that includes crows, rooks, ravens and magpies, are remarkably intelligent creatures. They have been known use tools, plan for the future, and recognize faces so well ...

A team of six trained birds — rooks, actually — is collecting paper and cigarette stubs at the Puy du Fou park in western France. They drop the trash into a container in exchange for food.

Nicola Clayton University of Cambridge, UK Rooks and other corvids, such as crows and ravens, are extremely clever, with intellectual abilities on a par with those of chimpanzees.

There’s also the strong possibility that the rooks could become dependent on the human-provided food. But if this experiment pays off, expect to see crows picking up trash in many more places soon.