Archive for 'Corvus Frugilegus'
Rook — BBC Nature
The BBC has a lovely webpage with lots of information about the Rook. It has videos too. =)
Posted: November 15th, 2011 under Corvus Frugilegus, Rook.
Tags: bbc, Corvus Frugilegus, Rook, Rooks
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Rooks and tools
Researchers in the Britain may have stumbled upon something interesting about rooks that Aesop observed some two-thousand-five-hundred years before. Rooks use different size stones to raise water levels in a tube that contains a worm. Is this really a recent ‘discovery’…read Aesop’s fable The Crow and the Pitcher:
A Crow, half-dead with thirst, came upon a [...]
Posted: August 7th, 2009 under Aesop, Corvidae, Corvids, Corvus Frugilegus, intelligence, research, Rook, Tool Use, video.
Tags: Aesop, Aesop's fable, britain, corvid fable, corvid myth, corvid story, fables, pebbles, research, rook myth, rook story, stones, the crow and the pitcher, the pitcher and the crow, Tool Use, tool use and crows, tool-use and birds, tool-use and rooks, water level, worm
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Corvus frugilegus (The Rook)
Communique
Originally uploaded by Mark Cummins
Another excellent photograph found on flickr. This one is by Mark Cummins. If you click on the photograph it will take you to the URL where it is originally posted.
I am not 100% certain what particular bird this is in the corvidae family. However, I think it might be a rook [...]
Posted: November 3rd, 2008 under Corvidae, Corvids, Corvus Frugilegus, Flickr, Habitat, omnivorous, Photograph, Pictures, Range, Rook, story.
Tags: corvid, Corvidae, corvus, Corvus Frugilegus, Crow, Europe, Great Britain, Habitat, Rook, Rook diet, Rook habitat, Rook nesting, Rook poem, Rooks, story
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Here Comes The Rural Rook
Here Comes The Rural Rook
Originally uploaded by Mark Cummins
Ok, I know! I am going hogwild with the flickr photos today but really, aren’t they worth looking at? This is a beautiful photo by Mark Cummins (on Flickr) of a Rural Rook.
They are so interesting to look at, they are thinkers. I can appreciate that quality [...]
Posted: October 29th, 2008 under Corvidae, Corvids, Corvus Frugilegus, Mark Cummins, Photograph, Rook.
Tags: common rook, corvid, Corvidae, corvus, Corvus Frugilegus, food gathering, Mark Cummins, Rook, Rural rook
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