Obscure, extravagant tropical crows
September 3rd, 2011 |
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The word ‘crow’ typically conjures up an image of a reasonable large, typically black, typically unadorned passerine bird. Crows of this kind occur just about worldwide with the exception of South America and Antarctica – they’re very successful birds. But far less well known is that there is also a really interesting assortment of brightly [...]
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Seven Things You Didn’t Know About Ravens, Superbowl Edition
February 4th, 2013 |
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The triumph of corvids over numbers yesterday in the Super Bowl meant two things to me: first, that ornithology continues to trounce math in any contest that matters, and second, that I would have to follow up this weekend’s groundhog post with a post about the amazingness of one of the most clever of winged [...]
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Snowboarding Crows: The Plot Thickens
January 16th, 2012 |
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On Friday, I quickly posted this video, which shows a crow – likely a hooded crow (thanks to a commenter at Andrew Revkin’s Dot Earth blog for the ID) – appearing to “snowboard” down the roof of a Russian building, using a small object as a makeshift snowboard. Over at The Atlantic, Alexis Madrigal also [...]
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