How Smart Are Crows? Everything We Know About Their Intelligence

Certain birds like ravens, crows, and magpies have extremely flexible vocal abilities. They can mimic human speech tones, syllables, and rhythms—much like parrots. So a crow might reproduce a phrase that sounds like Japanese, even though it’s only copying the sound pattern, not the meaning. In other words, corvids can imitate how Japanese sounds, but they do not understand or use the language. Sometimes, these birds may even seem to use human words in the right context. But this isn’t true under

Did you know that American Crows can mimic human speech? Take a listen to Edgar, our non-releasable crow, saying "Hello" and "Ow". Exceptionally interesting is that he knows that biting a hand, which he can be seen doing (gently) often results in his human friend saying "Ow". Crow intelligence is often believed to be similar to that of a seven year old child. Crows and ravens have even been documented using tools!! | Humane Indiana Wildlife

How corvids mimic human speech