Terns, Crows, and electric eggs. Happy Fence Friday
Why would anyone want to track crows? Crows, in the Corvid family, are clever, adaptable, inquisitive, and sometimes mischievous. Highly social they will feed a baby that is not theirs and even conduct funerals for their dead. They can problem-solve and learn from other Corvids.
Crows will eat almost anything. Perhaps the leg banding study was about a creature that was on the crow's menu?
The Least Tern is a Mockingbird sized guy who soars through the air and sounds like a pet store parakeet. Their babies are like cotton balls with little legs. So cute. Last year a Least Tern colony was found at Malibu Lagoon. It was cause for celebration. The tiny birds had survived thoughtless people with garbage, dogs, drones, kites, feisty little kids .... two days later it was destroyed by crows.
Scientists collected abandoned eggs and wired them up to give a predator a small zap of electricity and then placed the eggs at a fenced off area known to be a Least Tern colony on Venice Beach. Speaking as someone who has backed into an electrified fence, it makes an impression. Will the shocked Crows learn a lesson from the electric eggs and teach that lesson to other Crows?
A shout out was made to LACoBirds readers to report sightings of banded crows to Thomas Ryan.
W9 spotted the leg bands on the Crow and took video and stills. Lucky for me the guy hopped up onto the fence giving me the perfect excuse for posting a crow photo.
American Crow with leg bands on a Happy Fence near Ballona Creek 8595
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An article by Vanessa Nicole Velasco
Terns, Crows, and electric eggs. Happy Fence Friday
Why would anyone want to track crows? Crows, in the Corvid family, are clever, adaptable, inquisitive, and sometimes mischievous. Highly social they will feed a baby that is not theirs and even conduct funerals for their dead. They can problem-solve and learn from other Corvids.
Crows will eat almost anything. Perhaps the leg banding study was about a creature that was on the crow's menu?
The Least Tern is a Mockingbird sized guy who soars through the air and sounds like a pet store parakeet. Their babies are like cotton balls with little legs. So cute. Last year a Least Tern colony was found at Malibu Lagoon. It was cause for celebration. The tiny birds had survived thoughtless people with garbage, dogs, drones, kites, feisty little kids .... two days later it was destroyed by crows.
Scientists collected abandoned eggs and wired them up to give a predator a small zap of electricity and then placed the eggs at a fenced off area known to be a Least Tern colony on Venice Beach. Speaking as someone who has backed into an electrified fence, it makes an impression. Will the shocked Crows learn a lesson from the electric eggs and teach that lesson to other Crows?
A shout out was made to LACoBirds readers to report sightings of banded crows to Thomas Ryan.
W9 spotted the leg bands on the Crow and took video and stills. Lucky for me the guy hopped up onto the fence giving me the perfect excuse for posting a crow photo.
American Crow with leg bands on a Happy Fence near Ballona Creek 8595
digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1181&a...
An article by Vanessa Nicole Velasco