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Re: Photographer captures 'odd but exciting' crow behaviour known as anting

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dwighttk wrote: post #28

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Re: Photographer captures 'odd but exciting' crow behaviour known as anting

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stopping wrote: post #31

Pre-WFH, there were several groups of crows near my office covering distinct territories around my building. I made a habit of feeding and interacting with a few of these groups, every day for several months. Here are my experiences: * I did indeed see a crow "anting" one time, and was initially as bewildered as the photographer in TFA. Surprisingly I was able to get much closer to the bird than they normally allow,…

Someone posted years ago here about feeding crows in a local park that they rode by daily on their bike, and how for months after they stopped feeding them they were occasionally met by a phalanx of crows who flew alongside them for a while as they rode.

That has been on my bucket list ever since. Not a whole phalanx, but I would like to have a crow friend like Patera Silk did. They migrate through my area in midwinter, so I will have to get some unsalted nuts this year (and the next, and the one after that…)

Re: Photographer captures 'odd but exciting' crow behaviour known as anting

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filoeleven wrote: post #112
stopping wrote: post #31

Pre-WFH, there were several groups of crows near my office covering distinct territories around my building. I made a habit of feeding and interacting with a few of these groups, every day for several months. Here are my experiences: * I did indeed see a crow "anting" one time, and was initially as bewildered as the photographer in TFA. Surprisingly I was able to get much closer to the bird than they normally allow,…

Someone posted years ago here about feeding crows in a local park that they rode by daily on their bike, and how for months after they stopped feeding them they were occasionally met by a phalanx of crows who flew alongside them for a while as they rode. That has been on my bucket list ever since. Not a whole phalanx, but I would like to have a crow friend like Patera Silk did. They migrate through my area in midwint…

My crows have done this sometimes when I'm on my bike! Although they'll usually only follow alongside me as far as their territory extends, about the length of a parking lot. Not quite a phalanx either, just a bird or two.

Re: Photographer captures 'odd but exciting' crow behaviour known as anting

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strogonoff wrote: post #88
unwind wrote: post #81

That was weird. Also TIL that English of course has a specific word for a bunch of crows: a murder of crows [1]. As a non-native user of the language, that was ... surprising. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Crows

In English, collective nouns for a group of (usually animals) are full of surprises and often sound quite creative. A wake of vultures, a rave of ravens, a rookery of seals, and so on.

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Post by rrrrrrrrrrrryan »

karmakaze wrote: post #18
optimalsolver wrote: post #17

>Dr. David Bird, an emeritus professor of wildlife biology with McGill University. Quite an appropriate name. Reminds me of the two most distinguished geologists of our day, Johnny Rockman and Bobby Boulders.

People do seem to gravitate/grow into their names. The one that stands out to me is Schwarzschild radius: schwarz == black.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism

Re: Photographer captures 'odd but exciting' crow behaviour known as anting

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monkeycantype wrote: post #15
tpmx wrote: post #7

I live in a place where I get to witness epic battles between a murder of crows and a colony of seagulls on a daily basis this time of the year. The seagulls are nesting on the roofs of nearby houses. The crows are trying to eat the seagull hatchlings. It's kind of fascinating to watch. It seems like the crows are trying new strategies every new day. The much larger seagulls are wasting lots of energy in a kinda stup…

That sounds like an awesome nature documentary. Where is this?

South-eastern Sweden, at the coast.
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