The raven features a lot in native North American folklore, revered as a deity and regarded as a trickster and even as a mediator between life and death. For visitors to the Grand Canyon in Arizona, ...

I am often asked, what’s my favorite bird ... other crows are found around the world. In fact, here in America we have four different kinds of crow and two species of raven.

The American crow is the “default” crow across most of North America. It overlaps broadly with the common raven, and to a lesser extent with the Chihuahuan raven, fish crow, and northwestern crow.