How can we possibly think we can communicate with non-human life forms from other galaxies when we can't communicate with intelligent carbon-based life forms right here on earth?
Love my In the Company of Crows and Raven's and The Gifts of the Crow by John Marzluff and Tony Angell, and The American Crow and the Common Raven, especially for Crow cognitively and intelligence. Jennifer Akerman's books discuss this well, as does Candice-?, I think, in Bird Brains (?), though I don't have that. I counted 14,000, and 26,565 at the Allentown, Pennsylvania winter roost here and have heard of more. I started a roost blog, allentowncrowroost.wordpress.com, if you and your readers are interested in a local roost status. I don't have the email address working yet for people to submit counts and other information, and the counts, but I discuss the relationship between roost count growth and area sprawl growth, and will get that corrected and put in a bit about Crow cold temperature survival and their metabolism, called the science of avian energetics. It's a more scientific site though, perhaps more appropriate for those interested in ornithology.
Sorry I didn't respond about Bruce, but I guess you discovered him. Small world! And you still look great!!
By the way, the Cornell Lab Bird Academy class on crows is excellent if Cornell crow expert Kevin McGowan is still offering it, and it is relatively inexpensive. He goes over cooperative breeding, including some new research, sentineling dynamics, and other crow biology and ecology. I think the website may be academy.allaboutbirds.org, or birdacademy.org.
Love my In the Company of Crows and Raven's and The Gifts of the Crow by John Marzluff and Tony Angell, and The American Crow and the Common Raven, especially for Crow cognitively and intelligence. Jennifer Akerman's books discuss this well, as does Candice-?, I think, in Bird Brains (?), though I don't have that. I counted 14,000, and 26,565 at the Allentown, Pennsylvania winter roost here and have heard of more. I started a roost blog, allentowncrowroost.wordpress.com, if you and your readers are interested in a local roost status. I don't have the email address working yet for people to submit counts and other information, and the counts, but I discuss the relationship between roost count growth and area sprawl growth, and will get that corrected and put in a bit about Crow cold temperature survival and their metabolism, called the science of avian energetics. It's a more scientific site though, perhaps more appropriate for those interested in ornithology.
Sorry I didn't respond about Bruce, but I guess you discovered him. Small world! And you still look great!!
Whoops, The American Crow and the Common Raven is by Lawrence Kilham, good for those who like amateur natural history field studies of familiar birds.
By the way, the Cornell Lab Bird Academy class on crows is excellent if Cornell crow expert Kevin McGowan is still offering it, and it is relatively inexpensive. He goes over cooperative breeding, including some new research, sentineling dynamics, and other crow biology and ecology. I think the website may be academy.allaboutbirds.org, or birdacademy.org.
Kevin is an amazing resource.
Laura, thank you once again, for elevating my birding. I am always very grateful for your work.