Originally Posted By: eugene molloy
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Watch the crow shooting video again but this time with your reading glasses on :), everytime he shoots a crow falls.
They aren't crows.

Next time you read a post get to the end of the second line. smile The great majority were rooks with possibly a jackdaw or two and one magpie.... no crows that I saw.

Mr Digweed even mentions that his "crows" have a big colony nearby; crows are relatively solitary and don't nest in colonies. Rooks do, and in consequence these are called "rookeries". No one ever heard of a "crowery".

Countryman's jest runs... "Lots of crows in a field are rooks, lots of small crows in a field are jackdaws, and a couple of really big crows are ravens".

Eug


Crows are not solitary, ever heard of a crow roost? Ever hear of a "murder" of crows? There have been roosts in the US with up to 1M birds in them. In the 1930's and WWII they blew up the roosts in the midwest with dynamite to prevent crop destruction. One blast killed over 300,000 crows alone.

Mr. Digweed called them crows, he shot them a long way out so I didn't see the subtle detail. However the video is remarkable for his long range shooting skill on "corvids".


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll2oYeKGcxs&NR=1