These birds make strategic connections to get better food Sometimes getting what you want in life comes down to who you know — a lesson a group of wild jackdaws in England learned rather quickly.

Vocally mediated consensus decisions govern mass departures from jackdaw roosts. Current Biology, 2022; 32 (10): R455 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.04.032 ...

A Yorkshire village is currently being “terrorised” by a jackdaw called Derek whose antics have apparently left children "petrified". The bird is said to have been carrying out attacks in ...

Each jackdaw calls out to signal they want to leave. Then, only when the noise reaches a certain critical level, do the birds take off.

10790137_G Author: wthr.com Published: 9:12 AM EDT June 16, 2016 Updated: 9:10 AM EDT July 21, 2016 A jackdaw bird is recovering after swallowing a pair a tweezers nearly the size of his own body. The ...

The injured bird, a jackdaw, was found in the front garden of a home on Arundel Drive in Darlington on May 26 and had suffered a severe wound after being shot twice by an air rifle. Vets were ...

The jackdaw has reportedly been bringing fear to Rossington, near Doncaster, for a number of years, with villagers divided on whether the bird is wild or a domesticated pet. In the latest incident ...

The size of the roosts varied from 160 to almost 1,500 individuals. They quantified the intensity of the birds’ calls leading up to and right after they took off in flight.