DEAR JOAN: I would like your help and advice about a small group of crows that seems to have taken up residence in my neighborhood, especially around my cul-de-sac of six homes. About six months ago, ...
Crows, along with ravens and magpies, as a type of bird known as corvids. They are highly intelligent, with good memories, capable of mimicking human speech, and have been known to hold grudges, as ...
In recent years, I've spotted coyotes and foxes in the local park, an 8-point buck and a doe in the 7-Eleven parking lot, and a plethora of squirrels and rabbits, as well as the occasional opossum, ...
For the past month or so, people in Denver’s Park Hill neighborhood have revisited scenes from Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds.” Quiet mornings are shattered by a crescendo of cawing and screaming from ...
High-speed video shot from inside a crow’s voice box has revealed striking similarities between the bird’s signature caw caw call and a low, raspy sound produced by humans. “We used an angioscope, ...
If you didn't have fun with the cricket match (IPL 2025 Final) that kept many awake last night, we guess you are a football fan. For once, forget Messi or Neymar, and imagine a bird playing the sport.
Who needs Hitchcock when we are in the middle of our own episode of "The Birds"? I walked out of my Mt. Auburn Street office a few weeks ago just before dusk and stopped in my tracks. Every tree was ...
Jake Kringer is the only fellow I know who has eaten crow, except figuratively. ”We tried filleting one and frying it years ago,” he said. ”It was very dark meat. Very tough. Not too good.” But he ...