American crows

• Reside in most of the U.S. and in parts of Canada.

• They live in the eastern half of Texas but rarely in other parts of the state, except for El Paso.

• Their habitat includes agricultural fields, parklands, forests, city parks and suburban neighborhoods.

• Their omnivorous diet includes grains, seeds, worms, insects, garbage and small mammals.

• Crows usually forage in flocks while posting a sentinel crow to sound an alarm call at the sight of a predator.

• Flocks roost communally and may use the same roosting area for decades.

• Another Texas species, called the fish crow, lives in coastal forests near Beaumont.