A Lovesong of Crows

[scriva]

Before I spend another day composing an entry in my head without actually writing and posting it, I would like to talk about the lovesong of a crow I had the pleasure to hear those last two mornings. It should be mentioned that my living area is the habitat for several corvidae: magpies, carrion crows, hybrids between carrion and hooded crows,

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[peadarog]

Lovely! And not a single joke about "Feasts".

[scriva]

No? I thought the title was allusive enough ;), but then I was too amused about the wordgame "exhibit" --> "exhibition" and researching pictures to care about introducing other jokes. :)

[peadarog]

You can't concentrate on everything at once.

[scriva]

Normally, the should only produce a soft cooing and clicking noises (like "schnalzen" or "glucksen"), but that crow or rook actually produced imitated sounds from singing birds and at one point, it sounded like "cackling" (the bird version of an evil laughter).

However, I really regret now that I didn't catch a few minutes of it on video, because it seemed to be a rare feed and I'm not entirely sure if the lovesong of the crow overlapped with other early birds.

I found one link with an audio-sample with crow sounds that do have an exmaple of funny noises they can make. The ending of the audio clip sound like a "duck" imitation.

[xraytheenforcer]

I love corvids. <3

[scriva]

They are awesome, I spend lots of time during the winter with observations. I also found the Richard Attenborough's video of the Japanese crows that crack nuts by dropping them from hight places and use the trafic lights to fetch them. I knew it already, but it always has me chuckling.