What happened to all the crows?

SwampDonkey · January 23, 2012, 01:17:12 PM

Maybe crows are blackbirds to, I don't know. ;D :D

beenthere · January 23, 2012, 01:40:17 PM

SD
Crows are black birds, but not blackbirds. ;)

Weekend_Sawyer · January 23, 2012, 01:57:53 PM

I heard that the West Nile Virus took out a lot of the crows in this area. NPR even did a segment on how the smaller groups reformed into new groups.

Up on the tree farms in WV we have a lot of crows and ravens. I like hearing the ravens talk.

Jon

Burlkraft · January 23, 2012, 05:01:00 PM

Quote from: beenthere on January 23, 2012, 11:43:05 AM
Morphed the subject into blackbirds. : :

Thought it was crows, and they are still "up north"

Black birds are just small crows.

Use yer imagination...... :D :D :D :D

SwampDonkey · January 23, 2012, 06:22:21 PM

Beenthere I think some of our crows migrate. We are right on the edge of the winter/summer range where I live. ;) In the fall the sky is full of them, so they must be the ones that leave from further north. Some places the ravens bother the curb side garbage. I've never had a bird ever touch my garbage. Just cats and dogs that roam about from neighbors. The ravens are pretty smart, so maybe they figure all the scraps are what I've tossed out and not in the garbage, who knows. ;)

chain · January 23, 2012, 08:37:23 PM

Quote from: Weekend_Sawyer on January 23, 2012, 01:57:53 PM

I heard that the West Nile Virus took out a lot of the crows in this area. NPR even did a segment on how the smaller groups reformed into new groups.

Up on the tree farms in WV we have a lot of crows and ravens. I like hearing the ravens talk.

Jon

Now that you've mentioned the WNV I'm remembering the virus infected several birds, maybe jays & robins too. But that's about the time the crow began to decline greatly around here. They may be federally protected in nesting season; Missouri has a March to November closed season on them
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We have a cedar tree windbreak on the west side of our yard, several years ago we had a near blizzard, a 'white-out' I think the weather people called it. It blinded crows from flying to their roost, about dusk the storm ended, the crows all piled in to the cedars from a field near the house, probably two or three thousand of them, they jabbered to each other all night.