May 4th, 2017: Corvidae

[Diaphone Jim]

Yep, very boring birds.
I usually have at least one nest nearby every year and they always entertain.
Nearly full grown youngsters will often sit right next to ripe fruit and beg loudly to be fed.
When a group raises holy hell, I go out to watch a hawk or owl try to avoid mayhem.
Is that some kind of striped hyena top left in the second group of pics?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Snakeadelic

All flocking corvids that have been studied are tail-pullers. No one's sure why.

I told you, it's because they're assholes.

Someone should put together a post of the jays and magpies, which are kinda the drag queen section of the family! The magpie-jays, genus Calocitta, the Central American group, genus Cyanocorax, and the southeast Asian jays, genus Urocissa, are all spectacularly colorful and very, very smart.

Someone? Someone! What are you, chopped liver? Go to it, someone.

Originally Posted by glatt

I read somewhere in the past that experiments have been done that show crows recognize people. Especially ones who have been mean to them. I suppose the opposite is true.

Yeah, some college had some birds with a grudge against a particular person so they made some masks like him and anyone wearing the mask would get dive bombed regardless of height weight or sex.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Almost forgot, people have preferences, some want Canaries, Parrots or hunting Falcons.
This corvid chose an Emo.