Sighting details

Location
near Edmonton, 01

Geobirds Local >>


rarityAmerican Crows (150)
Seen by kathylagare
When August 23, 2010 at 21:18
Details COMMON
Notes Thought I was hallucinating, but I just saw between 150 and 200 crows flying over my house (near the museum). It was dusk so I couldn't tell what they were until a few of them started to crow.
Weather Calm, clear, 17 degrees.


Comments 

user jim macgregor, Aug 23 2010
Kathy, -saw the same "muster" of crows circling around Manning freeway and the 137 Avenue overpass on our grocery run at 11:30 Am today; later saw all those grackles in our backyard and clean forgot about the crows! Gotta be old age! HA!
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user jim macgregor, Aug 23 2010
"WikiAnswers", has a neat summary of corvid lore: -"A group of crows is called a flock, muster or storytelling of crows. The most widely used term is "murder." This is based on the (fallacious) folk tale that crows form tribunals to judge and punish the bad behavior of a member of the flock. If the verdict goes against the defendant, that bird is killed (murdered) by the flock. The basis in fact is probably that occasionally crows will kill a dying crow who doesn't belong in their territory or much more commonly feed on carcasses of dead crows. Also, both crows and ravens are associated with battlefields, medieval hospitals, execution sites and cemeteries (because they scavenged on human remains). In England, a tombstone is sometimes called a ravenstone."
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