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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.
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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.
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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.
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More Snow Crows…

Some of the crows on the snowy porch… they are being particularly loud, raucous and aggressive today. I think when it gets cold and food is scarce, they become a bit testy…

Posted: December 19th, 2008 under American Crow, bird cam, Common Crow, Corvidae, Corvids, Corvus brachyrhynchos, Crow, feeding, observation, snow, Winter.
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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.
Read the rest of the article here.
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.
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Tiny Crow Camera Spies On Clever Birds

ScienceDaily (2007-10-10) — Researchers can now ‘hitch a ride’ with wild birds and witness their natural and undisturbed behaviour. Scientists developed miniaturised video cameras with integrated radio-tags that can be carried by wild, free-flying birds. Using this new ‘video-tracking’ technology, they spied on the behaviour of New Caledonian crows, a species renowned for its sophisticated [...]

Posted: November 12th, 2008 under behavior, bird cam, Corvus moneduloides, New Caledonian Crow, observation, ornithology, technology, video tracking.
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