Here is an action shot of a bird diving at a crow in my backyard, presumably to get the crow to leave. I noticed this for going on for several weeks (follow link for better view of the dive-bombing bird). The crow didn’t seem to mind too much most of the time.
I visited Madison this week and saw 4 wild turkeys wandering around in a residential area. I didn’t have my camera handy however, so I didn’t get a photo 🙁 It was a strange and cool site.
Related: Cool Crow Research – Backyard Wildlife: Sharpshinned Hawk – posts on birds
Crows Carry Cameras for Science:
The cameras look through the legs of the birds, transmitting what they record to a person holding a receiver several hundred meters away.
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To understand more about how and why the crows use tools, researchers need a lot of details about their lives in the wild
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Videos included footage of the crows using plant stems as tools to probe for food and even carrying a tool from one place to another. The images showed that birds on the ground pick up just 8 bits of food an hour.
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To understand more about how and why the crows use tools, researchers need a lot of details about their lives in the wild
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Videos included footage of the crows using plant stems as tools to probe for food and even carrying a tool from one place to another. The images showed that birds on the ground pick up just 8 bits of food an hour.
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