Archive for 'family'
Ravens Compete
Ravens Compete, originally uploaded by nordicshutter.
Love, love, love. Ravens like all corvids are loving and close with family. They are loyal mates. According to the Dr. Bernd Heinrich, mates are close to as what we think of as monogamous as any bird can be. Here is what he told Carolyn Kraft on wildthingsblog.org,
Dr. Heinrich explained [...]
Posted: September 23rd, 2010 under family, Mating, Raven, ravens.
Tags: do ravens mate for life?, mate for life and ravens, raven facts, ravens and mating, Ravens mate for life, ravens mating
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The Social Life of Corvids
Copyright © 2007 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.
The social life of corvids
Nicola S. Clayton1, and Nathan J. Emery2,
1Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, UK
2Sub-department of Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 8AA, UK
Available online 20 August 2007.
Article Outline
Of the 120 species of birds in the corvid family, which includes [...]
Posted: April 4th, 2009 under American Crow, behavior, bird brain, bird brain size, caching, Caledonian, Calls, cognition, Corvidae, Corvids, Crow, crows, eggs, family, Family Recognition, feeding, Fledgling, intelligence, Mating, Memory, metatools, monogamous, Parental care, Problem Solving, Range, Recognition, scientific article, Self-Aware, self-recognition, sociable, Tool Use.
Tags: behavioral flexibility, behavioural flexibility, bill holding, bill twining, bowing, breeding, cache, coloniality, communal, cooperative, cooperative behavior, corvid, corvid sociality, corvids social, crows, crows are sociable, cues, cultural variation, defending the nest, development period, dominant status, fanning, fission-fusion society, florida scrub-jay, food caching, helpers, jays, juvenile, linear dominance hierarchy, magpies, mated pair, mates, Mating, Mexican jay, monogamous, mutual preening, nesting, non-breeding relatives, offspring feeding, post-conflict affiliation, predator watch, ravens, Recognition, relative status, rookery, Rooks, roost, sociable, social, social bonds, social life, social network, social stimulation, social support, stress management, support, territory, vocal sharing, vocalizations, western scrub jay, winter roosts
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Corvid cognition
Copyright © 2005 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.
Nicola Clayton and Nathan Emery
aDepartment of Experimental Psychology and Sub-department of Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Available online 7 February 2005.
Article Outline
What is a corvid? There are just over 120 species of corvids, a family of songbirds that includes the crows, ravens, rooks and jackdaws, as well [...]
Posted: April 1st, 2009 under American Crow, behavior, caching, Caledonian, Calls, cognition, Common Crow, Common Raven, Corvid Cognition, corvid song, Corvidae, Corvids, Corvus brachyrhynchos, Corvus Corax, Crow, egg napping, egg stealing, eggs, family, Family Recognition, feeding, Fledgling, Friends, Habitat, intelligence, jays, Magpie, Mating, Memory, nutcrackers, observation, Problem Solving, Recognition, Self-Aware, self-recognition, stealing eggs, Tool Use.
Tags: biology, bird brain, bird cognition, bird intelligence, birds, cognition, corvid, Corvid Cognition, Corvidae, Corvids, crows, crows are intelligent, crows intelligence, Current Biology, Elsevier, intelligence, jays, magpies, Nathan Emery, Nicola Clayton, nutcrackers, primates, science, ScienceDirect
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Corvids play
Everything plays. Playing helps with motor and sensory skills as well as social behavior. It relieves stress. It teaches the young many important things needed for survival through the process of trial and error while they can still afford to make mistakes. It keeps relationships healthy. Social play helps children gain friends. Social play helps [...]
Posted: March 27th, 2009 under American Crow, behavior, bird brain, bird brain size, bird play, caring for the young, Common Crow, Common Raven, corvid, corvid brain, corvid play, Corvids, Crow, crows, family, learning, play, playing, social play, Young.
Tags: avian play, birds play, caring for the young, Common Raven, Corvidae, Corvids, corvids play, crows play, play, play with birds, play with crows, ravens, ravens play, social play
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The mysterious case of the vengeful crows
I do not know if this really happened or not but if it did… I guess it would make sense. We would remember 7 months later too…
Can crows wait for seven months to take their revenge on a human being… well here is one such case…
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Posted: March 24th, 2009 under American Crow, Calls, Common Crow, Corvidae, Corvids, Crow, crows, family, Family Recognition, Habitat, intelligence, Memory, Recognition.
Tags: Corvidae, Corvids, crows, crows know, crows recognize you, crows remember faces, Memory, Recognition, vengeance, vengeful
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Caching Corvids
Did you know that the corvid-family of birds cache food for later — saving it in multiple spots for many months? They also watch other birds cache food and steal it–moving it for themselves. They are sneaky. They pay attention. This is interesting. There brain size to body ratio is relative to primates. They are [...]
Posted: March 19th, 2009 under American Crow, bird cam, caching, Common Crow, Corvidae, Corvids, Crow, family, feeding, Habitat, intelligence, Photograph, Pictures.
Tags: American Crow, birds, cache, caching, Crow, crows, decline, food caching, intelligence, Memory, Northern crow, population, spatial memory, survival
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Are crows monogamous?
two crows
Originally uploaded by mikE~510
I regularly peruse crow photographs on flickr. Today I found this one. What an excellent photograph, don’t you think? Under the photograph the question was asked, “Are crows monogamous?” Are crows monogamous? Are ravens monogamous? I thought this would be a good post for today.
Yes, crows and ravens are monogamous. They [...]
Posted: December 15th, 2008 under American Crow, behavior, Common Crow, Common Raven, Corvidae, Corvids, Corvus brachyrhynchos, Corvus Corax, Crow, family, Family Recognition, Marzluff, Mating, monogamous.
Tags: are crows monogamous, are ravens monogamous?, bird love, crows, crows are monogamous, love, love bird, monogamy, ravens, social behavior
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Crows Can Recognize The Calls Of Relatives
American Crow by Mary Alice Bowles
Originally uploaded by maryalice462001
ScienceDaily (2007-03-20) — Most of us would know our mother’s voice on the phone from the first syllable uttered. A recent Cornell study suggests that crows also can recognize the voices of their relatives.
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This woman did a lot of in-depth research [...]
Posted: November 13th, 2008 under American Crow, behavior, Calls, Common Crow, Corvidae, Corvids, Corvus brachyrhynchos, Crow, family, Family Recognition, Flickr, intelligence, Memory, observation, Photograph, Recognition.
Tags: American Crow, crow family, crow recognition, crows, crows are intelligent, crows family, crows intelligence, crows recognize family calls, familiarity, family, family calls, Family Recognition, intelligence in birds, intelligent crows, Recognition
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To Steal or Not to Steal
Northwestern Crow (Corvus Caurinus)
Originally uploaded by ebirdman
ScienceDaily (2003-03-12) — Researchers at the University of Washington have found a species of crow that distinctly alters its behavior when attempting to steal food from another crow, depending on whether or not the other bird is a relative.
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The crows don’t mind sharing with family… [...]
Posted: November 11th, 2008 under Corvidae, Corvids, Corvus caurinus, Crow, family, Kin, Scrounging.
Tags: Corvus caurinus, Crow, crows and family, crows and kin, crows and non-kin, crows and pilfering, crows and scouraging, crows and scrounging, crows kin, Northwestern crow, sharing
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A Little Larceny Comes Naturally To Northwestern Crows
ScienceDaily (2001-12-12) — Crows and ravens are depicted as being clever and tricky animals in countless American Indian stories and legends. Those characterizations apparently are right on the mark, according to a pair of University of Washington researchers who have found a species of crow that is constantly looking for opportunities to steal food from [...]
Posted: November 10th, 2008 under Common Crow, Corvidae, Corvids, Corvus caurinus, Crow, family, feeding, Northwestern crow, sneaky.
Tags: competition for food, Corvus caurinus, crow competition, crows, crows steal food, families, flock, ingenuity, intelligence, Northwestern crow, Northwestern crows, resourceful, study, University of Washington
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