The Crow: highly social bird is also a toolmaker and problem solver
It’s time the truth about the amazing crow hit the mainstream. This big black loud bird deserves your attention, respect and definitely your admiration .
WHERE HAVE THE CROWS OF INDORE GONE ??????
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Crows have been known to place hard-to-crack nuts on roads for passing vehicles to crush. They love to play and have been seen climbing to great heights in a stiff wind and then falling earthward in a series of rolls and tumbles before catching themselves and doing it all over again. To amuse themselves, they will also pick up objects and invent games involving shaking, dropping and retrieving them.
And they know how to be their own doctors, it seems. Ants have acids and fluids that help rid crows of parasites. Crows have been observed stretching out on anthills and allowing ants to cover them, and sometimes they crush the ants into their feathers. Evidence indicates that this behaviour is learned and passed down generationally within crow family groups.
Crows live in monogamous, lifelong relationships and the younger members of the family help the parents raise new broods. Young crows do not breed until they are at least two years old. In spring and summer, they tend to stay with their family but in winter and fall the family groups join large aggregations that can contain thousands of individuals.
Crows have been hardest hit by West Nile virus, more so than any other bird though the blue jay, tufted titmouse, American robin, house wren, chickadee and Eastern bluebird have also been severely affected. They are also maligned by farmers, who accuse them of eating their crops while, in fact, crows most often eat the bugs and worms that destroy crops.
crow bird eat everything - from worms and bugs to mice and berries to rotten food and hard nuts. An adult crow needs 11 ounces of feed a day.
WHERE HAVE THE CROWS OF INDORE GONE ??????
Crows, among other species like elephants and some primates, have demonstrated that humans are not the only toolmakers and problem solvers on the planet. According to The Crow Society, crows rank as the eighth most intelligent non-human animals.
Watch this amazing video from thein which the crow not only uses a tool but reconstructs it to better suit his or her needs
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Crows have been known to place hard-to-crack nuts on roads for passing vehicles to crush. They love to play and have been seen climbing to great heights in a stiff wind and then falling earthward in a series of rolls and tumbles before catching themselves and doing it all over again. To amuse themselves, they will also pick up objects and invent games involving shaking, dropping and retrieving them.
And they know how to be their own doctors, it seems. Ants have acids and fluids that help rid crows of parasites. Crows have been observed stretching out on anthills and allowing ants to cover them, and sometimes they crush the ants into their feathers. Evidence indicates that this behaviour is learned and passed down generationally within crow family groups.
Crows live in monogamous, lifelong relationships and the younger members of the family help the parents raise new broods. Young crows do not breed until they are at least two years old. In spring and summer, they tend to stay with their family but in winter and fall the family groups join large aggregations that can contain thousands of individuals.
Crows have been hardest hit by West Nile virus, more so than any other bird though the blue jay, tufted titmouse, American robin, house wren, chickadee and Eastern bluebird have also been severely affected. They are also maligned by farmers, who accuse them of eating their crops while, in fact, crows most often eat the bugs and worms that destroy crops.
crow bird eat everything - from worms and bugs to mice and berries to rotten food and hard nuts. An adult crow needs 11 ounces of feed a day.
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The Crow Family (Corvidae)
Order: Passerines (Passeriformes)
Crows form the genus Corvus in the family Corvidae. Ranging in size from the relatively small pigeon-size jackdaws (Eurasian and Daurian) to the Common Raven of the Holarctic region and Thick-billed Raven of the highlands of Ethiopia, the 40 or so members of this genus occur on all temperate continents (except South America) and several offshore and oceanic islands (except for a few, which included Hawaii, which had the Hawaiian crow that went extinct in the wild in 2002). In the United States and Canada, the word "crow" is used to refer to the American Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos.
The crow genus makes up a third of the species in the Corvidae family. Other corvids include rooks and jays. Crows appear to have evolved in Asia from the corvid stock, which had evolved in Australia. A group of crows is called a flock or a murder,[1] because the group will sometimes kill a dying crow.[2]
Recent research has found some crow species capable not only of tool use but of tool construction as well.[3] Crows are now considered to be among the world's most intelligent animals.[4] The Jackdaw and (along with its fellow corvid, the European Magpie) has been found to have a neostriatum approximately the same relative size as is found in chimpanzees and humans, and significantly larger than is found in the gibbon.[5]
Members of this family are fond of bright, shiny objects, and will steal rings and other jewellery.
Order: Passerines (Passeriformes)
Crows form the genus Corvus in the family Corvidae. Ranging in size from the relatively small pigeon-size jackdaws (Eurasian and Daurian) to the Common Raven of the Holarctic region and Thick-billed Raven of the highlands of Ethiopia, the 40 or so members of this genus occur on all temperate continents (except South America) and several offshore and oceanic islands (except for a few, which included Hawaii, which had the Hawaiian crow that went extinct in the wild in 2002). In the United States and Canada, the word "crow" is used to refer to the American Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos.
The crow genus makes up a third of the species in the Corvidae family. Other corvids include rooks and jays. Crows appear to have evolved in Asia from the corvid stock, which had evolved in Australia. A group of crows is called a flock or a murder,[1] because the group will sometimes kill a dying crow.[2]
Recent research has found some crow species capable not only of tool use but of tool construction as well.[3] Crows are now considered to be among the world's most intelligent animals.[4] The Jackdaw and (along with its fellow corvid, the European Magpie) has been found to have a neostriatum approximately the same relative size as is found in chimpanzees and humans, and significantly larger than is found in the gibbon.[5]
The crow genus makes up a third of the species in the Corvidae family. Other corvids include rooks and jays. Crows appear to have evolved in Asia from the corvid stock, which had evolved in Australia. A group of crows is called a flock or a murder,[1] because the group will sometimes kill a dying crow.[2]
Recent research has found some crow species capable not only of tool use but of tool construction as well.[3] Crows are now considered to be among the world's most intelligent animals.[4] The Jackdaw and (along with its fellow corvid, the European Magpie) has been found to have a neostriatum approximately the same relative size as is found in chimpanzees and humans, and significantly larger than is found in the gibbon.[5]
Members of this family are fond of bright, shiny objects, and will steal rings and other jewellery.
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