Archive for 'feeding'
Wily Raven
What a fun video! This raven is intelligent and figures things out quickly… check it out…
Posted: April 3rd, 2012 under corvid, Corvidae, Corvidae Family, Corvids, Crow, crow videos, crows, feeding, Food, ravens, video.
Tags: intelligence, Intelligent, Raven, video
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The Crow and the Pitcher more than fable?
The Crow and the Pitcher, originally uploaded by AnnaleeBlysse.
Scientists believe the fable of the crow and the pitcher might have been fairly accurate given the new research showing rooks using rocks to raise the level of water where a worm resided… to bring the worm up to their level.1
They are such incredibly intelligent birds. The [...]
Posted: December 21st, 2010 under Aesop, corvid, corvid brain, Corvid Cognition, Corvidae, Corvidae Family, Corvids, Crow, crows, Crows in literature, Fables, feeding, folklore, Food, intelligence, Literature, lore, research, Rook, Tool Use.
Tags: Aesop's fable, crow and the pitcher, crow intelligence, fluid mechanics, intelligence, the crow and the pitcher, Tool Use
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How to keep Crows and Jays away from your bird feeders
We know many people do not share our appreciation for crows and jays. They can often been seen as pests or bullies, particulary when it comes to backyard bird feeders. If you want to keep the crows and Jays away from your bird feeders, protecting your little birdies, you can throw out whole pieces of bread [...]
Posted: April 12th, 2009 under American Crow, Common Crow, Crow, crows, Crows and Birdfeeders, feeding, How to get crows/jays away from feeders, jays, Jays and Bird Feeders.
Tags: crows and bird feeders, crows and bread, How to get rid of crows, How to get rid of jays, How to keep crows and jays away from bird feeders, how to keep crows away from bird feeders, how to keep crows away from my bird feeders, how to keep crows away from your bird feeders, how to keep jays away from bird feeders, how to keep jays away from my bird feeder, Jays and Bird Feeders, jays and bread
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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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Sunday with the crows…
We often spend Sunday watching birds. This Sunday our crows were allowing us the rare opportunity of taking their photographs with a little help of a zoom lens. They were chasing the ducks and squirrels off the lawn—away from the peanuts we threw down there. They were not successful as you can see in the [...]
Posted: March 30th, 2009 under American Crow, bird cam, Common Crow, corvid, Crow, crows, feeding, Photograph, territorial, Washington State.
Tags: American Crow, bunny, crow photographs, crows, ducks, photographs, pictures of crows, Washington State
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Suspicious Crows…
The crows are so suspicious. They do not want you to be near when they are eating. I wonder if this is due to years of humans eating crows or because people in general are not nice to them or are they just super private birds? They won’t eat with me present. They could just [...]
Posted: March 22nd, 2009 under American Crow, behavior, Common Crow, Corvidae, Corvids, Crow, feeding, peanuts, suspicious.
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Peanuts and Crows
We feed our crows peanuts daily. With the issues around salmonella and peanuts – I have been a bit nervous about giving them to the crows. I bought some peanuts I thought were safe AFTER the recalled products left the shelf but upon inspecting these peanuts — I am not so certain.
Posted: March 20th, 2009 under Common Crow, Corvidae, Corvids, Crow, feeding, peanuts, salmonella.
Tags: peanuts, salmonella
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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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Crow Cam Today =)
We put out peanuts without shells today for the first time. They were a hit. The crows like not having to open the shells and they attracted two more kinds of birds as well. =) Fun!
The crows seemed to be done for the day. The bowl was still about 1/4 full but they flew off. [...]
Posted: January 26th, 2009 under American Crow, bird cam, Corvus brachyrhynchos, Crow, feeding, observation, peanuts, The Crow Cam.
Tags: bird, black bird, corvid, Corvids, crow-cam, crows, The Crow Cam
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