Crows playing on snowy cars

Jimmy Dean Pancakes and Sausage on a Stick - Chocolate Chip Flavor

Another great food discovery. Click below to see the quite funny human Jon Stewart talking about this great find.

We have transformed North America into an Eden for Crows

Wow! This front page article at the Merc has everything. It has Larry Ellison (who is admired by all crows). The online version of the article has great pictures. And it has great quotes:

The intelligent, opportunistic birds are in the midst of a decades-long population surge and territorial expansion.

We have transformed North America into an Eden for crows with a nearly perfect arrangement of nesting and feeding habitat

People who are bothered by crows may need to look in the mirror, for it is human behavior -- wastefulness, in particular -- that enables them to thrive

Finally we Crows are getting the attention we deserve.

Researchers say crows use their beaks to gesture and communicate

Researchers say crows (OK ravens but we all know they are practically the same thing) use their beaks to gesture and communicate. Well doh!

Previously, so-called deictic gestures – such as pointing to signify "look" and holding something out to someone to signify "take" – were considered solely the province of human beings and our nearest relatives, the great apes.

Apparently the researchers looked at thirty-eight social interactions between seven ravens. Wow, what a pathetically sized data set! If there was a bird like me there then that would certainly skew the data.

A town where they fire fireworks at Crows

In Terre Haute they have a Crow Patrol which fires fireworks at crows. But Crows are resilient...

Humans have tried to keep crows away since forever. They have used scarecrows to feign human presence. They have hung sulfur-dipped rags to remind crows of gunpowder. They have mounted dead crows on sticks. They have sent out hawks, banged pots, laid out strychnine, shot off guns, paid bounties. Still the crows come, as if to peck away at our sense of superiority.

Crows are too intelligent to fall twice for most tricks. They care for their young and sick. They communicate through a vocabulary that goes well beyond “caw.” They use tools. They take note of our behavioral patterns and, even, our faces.

Researchers say crows have the same numerical cognition ability as human beings

Are these guys idiots?

The research by Shoei Sugita, professor of animal morphology at Utsunomiya University, and others has confirmed for the first time in the world crows can distinguish quantities of items, suggesting the birds have the same numerical cognition ability as human beings.

Yes crows can tell which symbol means food, but does that mean they can count?

Angry crows atack Police

Crows have been attacking police in the parking lot of an Everett Police Department precinct station. They've been swooping down and dive-bombing the officers as they walk to and from their cars.

Lt. Bob Johns said he recently was flanked by the aggressive birds and "got zinged."

"They're like velociraptors," Johns said.