More about crows:
Bay Nature: Flying in for the Crow Funeral: Can crows help explain human interest and rituals surrounding death? by Anne Marshall-Chalmers October 29, 2020
A crow funeral can happen at any time. Farmers bear witness after shooting unwanted crows in their fields. Powerline workers see them should an unlucky bird zap itself and drop. Occasionally, the funerals occur in a city park. All it takes is one dead American crow plus one fellow crow to spot it and release an alert, harsh and urgent — Caw! Caw! Within moments, a mob of crows arrives. Sometimes it’s only a handful, other times up to 60 or 70 birds settle onto branches or whatever aerial perch allows good viewing of the corpse and the surrounding scene.
For a short time, the birds remain quiet and still, only to break into a chorus of shrill calls. Back and forth, silence and aggravation for about 15 to 20 minutes until nearly all at once the ink-black birds launch and disperse, leaving branches to quiver.
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BBC article: New Caledonian crows show how technology evolves:
Tool-making crows have allowed us to see the first foundations of a technological breakthrough.
New Caledonian crows spontaneously make hooks out of plant material, using them to “fish” for grubs and spiders.
Experiments have now revealed that these hooked tools are 10 times faster at retrieving a snack than the alternative tool – a simple twig. Continue reading “Clever Crows”
ANCIENT LORE AND MAGIC OF CROWS AND RAVENS
Although crows and ravens are part of the same family (Corvus), they’re not exactly the same bird. Typically, ravens are quite a bit bigger than crows, and they tend to be a bit shaggier looking. The raven actually has more in common with hawks and other predatory birds than the standard, smaller-sized crow. In addition, although both birds have an impressive repertoire of calls and noises they make, the raven’s call is usually a bit deeper and more guttural sounding than that of the crow.
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DOUBT A CROW’S INTELLIGENCE? YOU WON’T AFTER SEEING THIS…
The clip, just over three minutes in length, shows a crow — dubbed “007? — easily solve a complex, eight-step problem to earn a snack. Posted to the BBC’s YouTube channel , the clip has gone viral, sitting at just over 6.5 million views at the time of publication… Continue reading “DOUBT A CROW’S INTELLIGENCE? YOU WON’T AFTER SEEING THIS…”