Murder of Crows...What?!
You see a bird, maybe you want to identify it, or find out why it's doing something unexpected. What's its life story? You just want to know more about it...what to do?
Greater Roadrunner sunning, by Carolgene Cottle, Texas
When we want to find out birds we often turn to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's newly re-designed All About Birds web site, or the on-line resource called Birds of North America, which costs $5/month and provides very detailed information on behavior and research, or we search the archives of 2 other Cornell Lab of Ornithology publications; Birdscope and Living Bird on-line for free.
Some of the entries to the Murder of Crows challenge bring up interesting questions, like:
Her own 'Murder of Crows' by Michelle Wellard
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Quite often, we don't know the special words used to describe birds..who knew a 'Murder' of crows is a group of crows?!
Find out more about words and birds....
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Birds attacking us, attacking each other, what's going on?
Find out about the motivation behind 'angry-looking' birds here
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Birds dancing or moving strangely, why do they do these strange things?
Find out more about the weird movements of birds...
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Birds in groups, sometimes this can be surprising, unexpected, and beautiful!
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Birds in unexpected places...
Learn more about why birds end up in strange places...
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A bird flew into my window...why would that happen?
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Weird-looking birds, which are they and what is going on with them?
Bald Northern Cardinal photographed by Cristie Herbst, Lakewood, NY
