Archive for 'Habitat'
Andaman Treepie (Dendrocitta bayleyi)
I did a previous post on this rare bird but I have found new information, so let’s read about it again, shall we?
According to the IUCN 3.1 Red List, the Andaman Treepie is nearly threatened. It is endemic to the Andaman Islands in India. Since the Andaman Treepie lives within a very limited habitat, it [...]
Posted: August 2nd, 2010 under Andaman Treepie, Dendrocitta bayleyi, Endemic, Habitat, Habitat Loss, India, Near Threatened.
Tags: Andaman Treepie, birds endemic to India, corvid endemic to India, Corvidae, endemic to India, near threatened corvid
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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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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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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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