# Can Crows really talk? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 12, 2002, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-crows-really-talk/142153 "2002-12-12T00:56:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 25
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-crows-really-talk/142153/25 "2002-12-12T22:17:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chronos \* > \*\*Magpies, meanwhile, don’t seem to say much of anything, in human or magpie language: We’ve got tons of them around here, and I’ve never heard an utterance from any of them. I’ll take **brachyrhynchos** ’ word for it, of course, that they _can_, but it seems that they don’t often want to. \*\* Maybe you should try striking up a conversation. Perhaps the ones up where you are are a bit shy. [Magpies](http://www.rutledgebooks.com/magpie.htm) are notorius for chattering, in particular those cut-ups [Heckle and Jeckle.](http://www.yesterdayland.com/popopedia/shows/saturday/sa1083.php) Actually, I think most corvids (crows, ravens, jackdaws, rooks, magpies, and jays) are mimics to some extent. I even saw one site that mentioned a Blue Jay that was able to talk, although it could say only one word. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-crows-really-talk/142153)._