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Newsworthy birds…
I found these two news articles about crows and thought they were shareworthy…
“Crow Cam Captures Creative Behavior in the Wild” on NPR
“The Crow Paradox” on NPR
Posted: March 15th, 2010 under Crow, crows, News.
Tags: Crow news, Crows and news, news about crows
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Crows are moving in…
I read this news story and thought it was worth sharing… check it out! =)
(If you go to the original source page -here- there is a video too!)
It’s almost a scene out of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” in Rochester . Well, sort of. It’s not quite as scary.
Rochester resident Jason Buck says, “It’s just basically a big [...]
Posted: February 8th, 2009 under American Crow, Common Crow, Corvidae, Corvids, Corvus brachyrhynchos, Crow, News, observation, roost, video.
Tags: corvid video, Corvids, crow video, crows, News, Rochester, roost, video
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Magpie ‘can recognise reflection’
Scientists discover magpies can recognize themselves. When in front of a mirror, magpies recognize what they look like, that it is themselves they are looking at and when something is off (or as it were, on them).
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Posted: September 26th, 2008 under intelligence, Magpie, News, Self-Aware, self-recognition.
Tags: Intelligent, Magpie, News, science, Self-Aware, self-recognition
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A Bird’s-Thigh View of Tool-Making Sheds Light on Crow
After attaching a crow-cam to the thigh of two crows, scientists realized crows are more intelligent than previously known. They can and do use tools. This doesn’t come as much of a surprise to me but it is an interesting read all the same.
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Posted: September 25th, 2008 under Crow, intelligence, News, Tool Use.
Tags: cam, crows, Intelligent, Tools
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Friend or Foe? Crows Never Forget a Face, It Seems
Researchers have found that crows, renowned for their ability to flourish in human-dominated landscapes, can recognize individual human faces. In this article they study the recognition abilities and memory of the crow.
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Posted: September 24th, 2008 under Corvidae, Corvids, Crow, intelligence, Marzluff, Memory, News, Recognition.
Tags: crows, face, intelligence, Marzluff, Memory, Recognition
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Crows beat chimps in mental test
Crows seem to be able to use causal reasoning to solve a problem, a feat previously undocumented in any other non-human animal, including chimps.
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Posted: September 23rd, 2008 under Chimps, Corvidae, Corvids, Crow, intelligence, News, Problem Solving.
Tags: Chimps, crows, intelligence, Problem Solving
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Bees Enlisted to Attack Crows in Tokyo
Um, apparently crows are thought to be a pest in Tokyo. How sad! They are sending the bees after them…they can not seem to catch a break. I think nature should run its course with regards to wildlife. We have eliminated so many predators and what are the consequences? Read more about how bees were [...]
Posted: September 22nd, 2008 under Bees, Crow, News, pests.
Tags: attack, Bees, crows, pests, predators
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Crows are the Einsteins of the avian world
In the journal Current Biology, researchers conclude that the birds’ tool-use skills rival those seen among great apes, such as chimpanzees and gorillas. Moreover, the birds appeared to solve the problem with reasoning rather than brute force trial and error.
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Posted: September 21st, 2008 under Caledonian, Chimps, Corvidae, Corvids, Crow, intelligence, News, Tool Use.
Tags: chimpanzees, crows, intelligence, Tool Use
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Crows Have Human-Like Intelligence, Author Says
Crows make tools, play tricks on each other, and caw among kin in a dialect all their own. These are just some of the signs presented in a recent book that point to an unexpected similarity between the wise birds and humans.
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Posted: September 20th, 2008 under Corvidae, Corvids, Crow, intelligence, News.
Tags: crows, intelligence, Tools
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