Raucous crow
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It's quite unusual to capture one with its beak open and flying at the same time?
Beautiful plumage
Beautiful plumage
I reccon thats a rook, Red. More of a pointed beak on a rook, also looks like grey on the beak, but that may be the light....Fast becomming one of my fav birds. I find them facinating. Was watching a big group of them a couple of weeks ago riding the thermals with 3 buzzards nearby...The rooks were going higher and higher, every time they hit the thermal, you could see them get lifted up several feet at a time, but every so often they would dive bomb each other, obviously playing and having a great time...I know they are not the farmers best friend, but I think they are great...
I am going to have to look up the difference between a rook and a crow and the other
ones, ravens, as basically they're all black birds (but not blackbirds) to me!
We get some pretty biggish ones in Blackheath - they are like large lumps of coal
(jet / matt-black beauties) that bounce around the heath - I think they could be quite
intimidating in large numbers. I'd always assumed they were crows.
We also get loads of Canada geese and ducks, and the year before last, 12 ducklings
on the main pond!
Well... the ones we get look quite a bit like ravens, but that can't be right?!
ones, ravens, as basically they're all black birds (but not blackbirds) to me!
We get some pretty biggish ones in Blackheath - they are like large lumps of coal
(jet / matt-black beauties) that bounce around the heath - I think they could be quite
intimidating in large numbers. I'd always assumed they were crows.
We also get loads of Canada geese and ducks, and the year before last, 12 ducklings
on the main pond!
Well... the ones we get look quite a bit like ravens, but that can't be right?!
Your probably right Jon - I'm rubbish at telling crows from rooks - I know me jackdaws, ravens, magpies jays and even hoodies. But crows for rooks - nah
Red
Red
Generally a group of crows are rooks, and a single rook is a crow....Crows are more solitary, whereas rooks are sociable....Easyist (sp..?) way to tell apart is the face...Crows have dark faces and rooks have greyer faces...
Rook... http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/r/rook/index.asp
Crow... http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/c/carrioncrow/index.asp
Looking at these links, I now think you were right with it being a crow, Red... The guys on WAB will tell you....
Rook... http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/r/rook/index.asp
Crow... http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/c/carrioncrow/index.asp
Looking at these links, I now think you were right with it being a crow, Red... The guys on WAB will tell you....
