Click here for the list of prizewinners 

Scroll below for  'recognized' entries

Click here for the directory of all the Murder of Crows stories/videos/poems

Click here for the directory of all the Murder of Crows photos and art

Click here to read the 'explanations' of some of the strange behavior

photo by Margaret Hasselwander, hawk pooping

Strange Behavior:

#29. Barbara Saffir, Blue Jay sunning
#32. Jim Burns, Ravens in air
#35. Jim Burns, birds flocking
#102. Marian Mendez, Mockingbird faces off cat
#116. Liz Malyszek, Red-tailed Hawks in air
#149. Margaret Hasselwander, Hawk pooping
#176.  Jeanne Kosciw, Mallards line up with heads under water
#30. video story, Kirt Ramirez, Baby/Henry pigeon flies to head
#51. video story, Donnie Boman, Golden-crowned Kinglet in NYC
#57. video story, Betty Lohraff, Woodpecker hangs like a leaf

Anhinga, photographed by Ed Barry

Strange birds:

#6,  Ed Barry, Anhinga
#31. Jim Burns, Eastern Meadowlark 'talons'
#52. Carolgene Cottle, Greater Roadrunner sunning
#73. Liz Malyszek, Little Blue Heron's bones
#117. Liz Malyszek, Tri-colored Heron
#125. Liz Malyszek, Werewolf egret

Male and female Red-winged Blackbirds by Caroline Sun

Great art work:

#13. Caroline Sun, Red-winged Blackbirds
#15. Hilary Zunin, image and quote from Macbeth
#44. Jon Rappleye, Double Psychic Nature Owls
#84. Paul Fiedler, drawing of crows
#133.  Sean Gnau, mass destruction
#158. Laurie Cleek, talons and mouse
#160. Stephen White, 8 years old, Murder of Crows
#175. Emma Kellman, Skops Owl drawing

Sharp-shinned Hawk and grackle meal, by Doris J. Lombard

Creepiest images:

#80. Doris Lombard, creepy heron in black
#38. Doris Lombard, Hawk/grackle
#39. Larry Usselman, crow on gravestone
#61. Robin Costello, nest on gravestone
#101. Marian Mendez, grackle on a branch
#154. Jeanne Miller, ravens

Barred Owl photographed by Jamy Sue Rose, Florida

Great Photo/Great Story combinations:

#6. Jamy Sue Rose, "The Haunting of the Spooky Owl"
#18. Yvonne Markotic, Crow Mosaic
#28. Jason Ferguson, Black Vultures

Old Red Eye Creepy Crow, to illustrate Joseph Salter's poem,
photo used with permission of Florida Dept of Health

Great poems:

#17. Robert Mortensen, Birding at Superstition Mountain
#25. Sienna Angelica Metzgar  The Day the Swallows Fought Back.
#29. Joseph Salter, 'Old Creepy Crow from Cedar Row'
#34. Makayla Sweeney  poem
#35. Nayeli Rayano   poem
#48. Connie and Peter Roop  poem

'Passer Licentia' by Nancy Landrum, of sparrows who live at the casino

Funny:

#24. Nancy Bailey, Atlantic Beach, Florida, THE CROWS OF CITY HALL
#31. Nancy Landrum, Passer Licentia
#36. Rebecca Hughes  story
#127. Brian Farnand, Black Like Me

album cover art for 'Serenade for the Crow that Fell', by Sherry Fraser

Songs:

#5. Barry Carter, 'Incantations'
#20. Sherry Fraser, 'Serenade for the Crow that Fell'

Your standard creepy birds: 

Crows and Cow, photo by Sakhawat Ali, Pakistan

Crows/Ravens:

#14. Vivki Hopper, crow with a bright eye

#26. Yvetta Williams, crow reading sign

#38. Ken Haft, Raven in Grand Canyon

#53-55. Sakhawat Ali, Crows and Pigeons in Pakistan

#56. Amy Jo Marsh, crows during wildfire

#81. Marganita Maldonado, crow love

#100. Leslie F. Miller, Crow food fight

#110. Merelyn Davis, Crows harass swallows

#111-114. Laura Vernon-Russell, Ghost Crow, fast crow, bickering crow

#135. Eva Walkuski   crow painting

#137. Mollie Duell, raven collage

#150-152. Margaret Hasselwander  crows playing

#180. David Molina, crows in Nayarit

3 Vultures, by Hilary Zunin

Vultures:

#28. Irene Wadsworth, stubborn vultures

#36. Katherine Hunt, vultures in AM

#65. Tammy Blouvet, vultures sunning

#67-70. Liz Malyszek, Black vultures

#75-76. Athena Laynch, Turkey Vultures in the vineyard

#86. Deirdre McCrohan, Turkey Vulture viewed from treehouse

#87. Jason Ferguson, Black Vulture dance

#88-90. Debbie Smith, vultures in dead tree

#136.  Eddie Callaway, Turkey Vulture

#141. Hilary Zunin, 3 vultures like 3 witches

#146. Jeanne Kosciw, Turkey Vulture at top of tree

#181. David Molina, Black Vulture

 Barn Owl, photograph by Jim Burns

Owls:

#17. Ethan Gyllenhaal, Whiskered Screech Owl

#24. Jamy Rose, Barred Owl

#27. Marge Raymond, Great Horned Owl

#33. Jim Burns, Barn Owl

#43. Nancy Leonti, hummingbird harasses owl

#46. Sharelle Venso, owl in flowerbox

#58. Megan Everett, Great Horned Owl

#85. Fran Cumbow, owls staring down from tree

#94. Jennifer Howard, Great Horned Owl...close up!

#108. Ciro Monaco, Eastern Screech Owl in NYC

#119. Liz Malyszek, Barred Owl in Florida

#123. Andrew Boyle, Great Horned Owl

#139. Alexis Bower, Screech Owl art

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