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Week of March 21, 2021
Birds (from page one) mortality rate of baby crows can be as high as 70%.
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• Members of the corvid family can imitate many sounds just as parrots can. One ornithologist noticed that his captive jays not only repeated words and whistles they heard from him, but they also barked when they saw a dog; meowed when they saw a cat; and hooted when they saw an owl. • Although ornithologists have identified about 300 different crow “words,” they have found that one crow cannot understand the dialect of another crow from a different part of the country. • Ravens seem to have “names” for each other and will call out to them when separated. FEEDING HABITS
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would have stolen the rest of the food. The man was amazed to see the raven solve the dilemma by shoving the crackers one atop another into a nearby snowbank. When he had six or seven crackers stacked up, the raven was able to by carefully pick them all up together and fly off with the entire bunch.
he refused the poisonous one and ate only the edible one. Researchers do not know how the crow was able to tell which grasshopper was the one that caused his illness. • Researchers watching crows drop snail shells on rocks to crack them open determined that the height the crows dropped them from was exactly the height needed to crack them. To drop them from a lesser distance would have meant wasted energy when they failed to open; dropping them from a greater height also wasted energy by extra flying and increased the chances the snail would bounce into the water. The crows also swished the snails in water to wash away the undesireable bits of shell.
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• A raven being attacked by a falcon got away when it flew between two narrow strands of barbed-wire fence. Following close behind, its persuing predator had a wider wing-span and was abruptly snagged in the wire as the crow flew away to safety.
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