Gifts of the Crow: brain scan proof these birds are devious, silly and smart

Biologists use brain scans (and entertaining experiments and anecdotes) to show that crows, ravens and other corvids think like people.

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July 5th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: animals are smarter than we thought, behavior, birds, blue jay, health, odd bird, science, urban wildlife, wildlife rehabilitation | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

5,000 dead red-winged black birds still bewildering

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The Daily Beast is pronouncing “Case Closed” on the 5,000 red-winged blackbirds that fell on Arkansas–or as every news story likes to put it “rained from the sky.” Not so fast

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January 4th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: birds, Ducks, Geese, Swan and other waterfowl, eagle, fish, health, odd bird, science, south, weird | One comment - (Comments are closed)