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A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

<p>Chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) — members of the crow family with distinctive red legs and a red beak</p>

outdoors

Clever, playful, and communicative — lots to like about the crow family

Each of the seven crow species that occur in Ireland have a lot of very similar traits, including an impressive ability to reason and to learn

<p>Rooks collecting nesting material</p>

outdoors

Birds of Ireland: Rook

<p>Detail from Mildred Anne Butler, Shades of Evening, 1904. Photo © National Gallery of Ireland </p>

outdoors

Richard Collins: Resourceful and intelligent rooks celebrated in watercolour

Couple of rooks / crows collecting nesting material

outdoors

Scary crow isn't scaring the clever crows of Killarney

Couple of rooks / crows collecting nesting material

home and gardens

Children today appreciate wildlife more than previous generations

Cormac MacConnell: Worthy candidates to be our national bird

farming

Cormac MacConnell: Worthy candidates to be our national bird

Rooks are fascinating birds

Rooks are fascinating birds

IT WAS dusk, a blustery November evening, and I was watching rooks, writes Dick Warner

Mon, 16 Nov, 2015