Halloween celebrations and decorations bring spooky stories, ghosts and goblins. Along with the skeletons, tombstones and zombies, we often portray Halloween with the statues, pictures and sounds of ...

It’s a familiar sight in winter: An inky-black raven soaring over a landscape white with snow. Though similar in appearance to the American crow, the common raven (Corvus corax) is distinguished by ...

The search for Common Ravens: In May of 2002, I wrote a column in which I explained to “Connie” that Cape Cod has plenty of crows, but no ravens. It is thought we did have ravens in the 1600s, but ...

In 1989, I had two experiences during a vacation to Washington state. One was walking through the Hoh Rain Forest on the Olympic Peninsula, where moss-covered trees tower above a dreamlike, primordial ...

The gentle rustling of wind and wings fills the silence of a summer morning at Lake Pueblo as a raven moves low in the sky. Two ravens drift and soar joyfully on updrafts near the east end of the ...

Another bird call that stops me in my tracks is the deep croak of a raven. But if this is an evocative sound what does it evoke? For me it brings back memories of days when I’ve hiked high into the ...